yes normally there is one :) Now I will check who is in. What we should pay attention is that we are not really in favor of private discussions (even if I understand it fr business it is important). If you think that this would be good we can create a private business list.
Stef > BTW, is there any special consortium list where we can discuss business out > of the public eye? > > --- > Philippe Back > Dramatic Performance Improvements > Mob: +32(0) 478 650 140 | Fax: +32 (0) 70 408 027 > Mail:p...@highoctane.be | Web: http://philippeback.eu > Blog: http://philippeback.be | Twitter: @philippeback > Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/philippeback/videos > > High Octane SPRL > rue cour Boisacq 101 | 1301 Bierges | Belgium > > Featured on the Software Process and Measurement Cast > http://spamcast.libsyn.com > Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect and Ability Engineering EADocX Value Added > Reseller > > > > > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:02 PM, Stéphane Ducasse > <stephane.duca...@inria.fr> wrote: > >> > > > > You could try: > > > > | floats | > > floats := (1 to: 200000) collect: #asFloat. > > [ FloatPrintPolicy > > value: InexactFloatPrintPolicy new > > during: [ > > String new: 1500000 streamContents: [ :stream | > > floats do: [ :each | each printOn: stream ] ] ] ] timeToRun > > > > => 796 ms > > > > I haven't looked at the Postgresql driver in detail, but I would guess that > > PostgresV2 reads from a String somewhere, which is slow unless care is > > taken, while psycopg probably does a binary read. That last thing can be > > done in Pharo as well, but not if the driver is text based somehow. > > > > You are right: Pharo should definitively be in the same range as other > > dynamically typed languages. But dynamic languages are dangerous: user > > become lazy / ignorant about performance. > > > > Thanks for pushing this. > > +1 > we need more people to profile and look at these aspects. > I can tell you that we are all working like crazy to improve the system and I > hope that one of these days we will have > real regression tests. But well you know it takes a lot of time. > > Stef > >
