Re: [Factor-talk] Looks like the Windows binaries are failing

[Paul M. <p.f...@gm...>]

2009/7/30 Darrin Thompson <dar...@gm...>:
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Paul Moore<p.f...@gm...> wrote:
>> [1] Simulate dealing and scoring a cribbage hand, many millions of
>> times. Gather stats on the distributions of the results. Bonus points
>> for making the hand generation and scoring procedures easy for the
>> user to fiddle with (that bit seriously hurts languages with high
>> function call overheads!)
>>
>
> Don't underestimate factor without the very very latest compiler
> improvements. I've been pleasantly surprised with the speed of naive
> code.

I don't. But I'm comparing against hand-written C/C++ (which scores
pretty low on readability, of course :-)) and I don't want to handicap
Factor unnecessarily. I'll probably run the Factor code on both old
and new versions, as a comparison.

Paul.