Tcl performance is slow?

From: Isaac Gouy (igouy_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 11/29/04 

Date: 29 Nov 2004 08:01:44 -0800

"Donal K. Fellows" <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk> wrote in message

> It's also clear that the site referred to is not run by someone who
> understands what is going on as well as Doug Bagley.

Ouch! I believe Aldo just copied the code and tests from Doug's
website to get the shootout running on Windows.

> And it would be fascinating to add additional tests that play to Tcl's
> strengths (e.g.converting a 1MB file from UNICODE to one of those ISO 2022
> encodings.)

So spec the test, do some first-cut programs in Tcl & Java & ...; and
explain on the shootout mailing-list why it's a good test and what
other tests it might replace.

We've started experimenting with ideas for new tests:
   http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/sandbox/

The current shootout uses Tcl 8.4.7, if the Tcl programs don't exploit
the features of Tcl 8.4.7 then contribute some programs that do!
   http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/

best wishes, Isaac

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