I've found some general benchmarks for Vala here. http://code.google.com/p/vala-benchmarks/wiki/BenchResults
--josh On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Don Dailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 14:52 -0400, Jason House wrote: >> What do you mean by appeared? When were the languages inteoduced? Is >> the speed and memory stuff just a claim? Or are there real benchmarks? > > They are relatively new language. When I say "appeared" I mean that I > never noticed them until recently. Even languages we think are new > usually took at least a year or two to reach some usable version level. > > Lisaac has numbers appearing in the language shootout that are extremely > impressive. > > Vala is statically typed and based on gnome. It translates to C code > but of course that doesn't guarantee that it will be fast. I don't > have numbers on Vala but it would be simple to make up your own test. > > - Don > > >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Oct 7, 2008, at 2:38 PM, Don Dailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > >> > I have noticed there are 3 more languages that have appeared that seem >> > to promise the speed and memory benefits of C and yet are higher level >> > languages: >> > >> > Has anyone looked at lisaac, Vala, or Genie? >> > >> > Lisaac is claimed to be just as fast as C and was designed to be >> > used to >> > write operating systems just like C was. It looks extremely >> > interesting but there appears to be little or no activity with it for >> > quite a while. >> > >> > Vala is a C#/Java type of language that compiles to C code and also is >> > claimed to give the advantages of C#/Java but the low level speed and >> > control of C. You can compile stand-alone executable programs with >> > it, unlike most other interesting languages. >> > >> > Genie is a brother to Vala and looks more like a static Python. The >> > web >> > page blurb goes like this: >> > >> > The syntax of Genie is designed to be clean, clear and concise. >> > In some ways its cleaner than Python and is certainly a lot >> > more >> > concise than C#/Java. >> > >> > Genie of course has all the advantages of Vala and you can >> > seamlessly use Vala code and bindings with it too just like a >> > CLR. >> > >> > - Don >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > computer-go mailing list >> > computer-go@computer-go.org >> > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ >> _______________________________________________ >> computer-go mailing list >> computer-go@computer-go.org >> http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ > > _______________________________________________ > computer-go mailing list > computer-go@computer-go.org > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ > _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
