Re: [q-lang-users] Pure

[Eddie R. <er...@bm...>]

On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 11:45 +0100, Libor Spacek wrote:

> I have installed Ubuntu 4.08, which was, unexpectedly, a pain in the neck.

This is off topic but, why such an old version? I'm using 8.04 (I'm
dyslexic so I didn't catch that at first) and it was fairly painless to
install. You can get LLVM 2.3 through the Synaptic Package Manager by
adding more software sources but I don't know what they are. Sometimes I
prefer the manual install ;) I installed Ubuntu, then Ubuntu 64bit, then
back to Ubunto. Although not Linux, I think I liked FreeBSD of all the
OSs I've used and that is quite a list.

> > Hi friends,


> > BTW, the present version is some 30-40 times faster than Q on naive fib,
> > IIRC. I was hoping for more, but it's already 7 times faster than Python
> > 2.4 on the recursive benchmark from the shootout, and it certainly makes

I wonder if Python 2.5 is faster than 2.4? MzScheme seemed to be faster
than Python 2.5 on most of the bench marks on the shootout. Lua seems
pretty fast too. The OCaml interpreter absolutely smokes. If I were
aiming for speed, the OCaml interpreter is the one to chase. However,
IIRC, BigIntegers are not built into OCaml and that and type information
can have a major impact on speed.

Eddie