listmember schrieb: >>> But, I could write a gigantic data mining application, a database >>> application >>> or a myriad of such apps that uses the above class without doing a >>> single >>> pixel of GUI stuff. >> >> I'd like to see that: it will be guaranteed dog slow :( > > Hmm.. may be, maybe not. > > Last year I wrote a natural lang parser (Pascal) and gave the source to > a Java developer of friend mine. > > It turned out to be faster in Java --classes and all. For some reason, > using the same algorithm (my code converted to Java, basically), Java > beat my natively compiled code. And, no there was no GUI involved.
Without detailed code one can say nothing about it. Just I/O being done wrong can ruin performance. > > compiler guys all the same} and ask, instead, to give us > reference-counted 4-byte (actually, preferably 6-bytes) per cell > arrays/strings. > What's wrong with an dyn. array of DWord? _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
