29 Apr
2016
29 Apr
'16
12:01 p.m.
On 4/29/2016 11:03 AM, Swift Griggs wrote:
My opinion is that benchmarking and subsequent
proclamations using
scripting languages is like racing snails vs slime molds (my money is on
the snails, BTW). It's all fun until someone shows you a graph of the same
algorithm in C and puts a quarter-horse in the race. Then your saying to
yourself things like "Should I be 10x or 15x slower?" :-P
http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/which-programs-are-fastest.html
I liked Forth when it was still threaded. You got the DOES> feature.
Do you still have that with the FORTH chips?
-Swift
Ben.