Re: Several Topics - Nov. 19, 2013

2013-11-20 Thread gamo
El 19/11/13 23:43, glen herrmannsfeldt escribió: And, importantly, the code runs fairly slow. Some years ago, I was working with simple PERL programs that could process data at 1 megabyte per minute. Rewriting in C, I got one megabyte per second. It is not too unusual to run 10 times slower, but

Re: Several Topics - Nov. 19, 2013

2013-11-19 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 9:43 AM, glen herrmannsfeldt wrote: > I also used to use a BASIC system that allowed you to stop a program > (or the program stopped itself), change statements (fix bugs) and > continue on from where it stopped. Not all can do that, but pretty > much compilers never do. Di

Re: Several Topics - Nov. 19, 2013

2013-11-19 Thread glen herrmannsfeldt
In comp.lang.fortran Rainer Weikusat wrote: > glen herrmannsfeldt writes: >> In comp.lang.fortran E.D.G. wrote: > "E.D.G." wrote in message > news:ro-dnch2dptbrhnpnz2dnuvz_rsdn...@earthlink.com... >>> Posted by E.D.G. on November 19, 2013 >>> 1. PERL PDL CALCULATION SPEED VERSUS PY

Re: Several Topics - Nov. 19, 2013

2013-11-19 Thread Rainer Weikusat
glen herrmannsfeldt writes: > In comp.lang.fortran E.D.G. wrote: "E.D.G." wrote in message news:ro-dnch2dptbrhnpnz2dnuvz_rsdn...@earthlink.com... >> Posted by E.D.G. on November 19, 2013 > >> 1. PERL PDL CALCULATION SPEED VERSUS PYTHON AND FORTRAN > > (snip) > >> This progr

Re: Several Topics - Nov. 19, 2013

2013-11-19 Thread Yaşar Arabacı
2013/11/19 glen herrmannsfeldt : > More recently, there are JIT systems which generate the intermediate > code, but then at the appropriate time (Just In Time) compile that to > machine code and execute it. This is common for Java, and more recently > for languages like Matlab. Is there a particul

Re: Several Topics - Nov. 19, 2013

2013-11-19 Thread glen herrmannsfeldt
In comp.lang.fortran E.D.G. wrote: >>> "E.D.G." wrote in message >>> news:ro-dnch2dptbrhnpnz2dnuvz_rsdn...@earthlink.com... > Posted by E.D.G. on November 19, 2013 > 1. PERL PDL CALCULATION SPEED VERSUS PYTHON AND FORTRAN (snip) > This program translation project has become one of th