Dan Sugalski wrote:
> I think perhaps a rewrite of life.pasm into perl with some
> benchmarking would be in order before making that judgement.
Following is a rough perl5 version of life.pasm.
On my system [Pentium 166; linux 2.2.18; perl 5.6.1] this takes 96 to 97
seconds; CVS parrot takes 91 t
At 8:09 AM -0400 4/12/02, Michel J Lambert wrote:
>
>Few things immediately come to mind:
>a) with the current encoding system, we're guaranteed to be slower than
>without it. If we want Parrot to be as fast as Perl5, we're deluding
>ourselves.
I think perhaps a rewrite of life.pasm into perl wit
> compared to a current CVS version of:
> 5000 generations in 90.813806 seconds. 55.057708 generations/sec
> A total of 32768 bytes were allocated
> A total of 130932 DOD runs were made
> A total of 10930 collection runs were made
> Copying a total of 57801936 bytes
>
> so a 97% decrease in the nu
