Thread: [Ficl-developers] Ficl vs C - Speed Comparison
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From: David M. <da...@re...> - 2001-12-06 03:06:59
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Hi all, I just ran a speed comparison of ficl versus C. The program used was a standard fibbonacci series. : fib dup 3 < if drop 1 else 1- dup recurse swap 1- recurse + endif ; In C, fib(42) took 10.25 secs to calculate on a T-bird 750. In FICL, it took 547 seconds, a speed degradation factor of 53. FICL is abundantly fast enough for user interface stuff and basic scripting things, but for any substantial calculations or manipulation of data, it has a performance issue. Luckily, though, it's brainlessly easy and convenient to write FICL words in C and do all the heavy crunching in C. Cheers David |