Re: [Factor-talk] Presentation and installation issues on Slackware64-14.1 Linux

2013-12-11 Thread Björn Lindqvist
Hi Luis, 2013/12/10 Luis P. Mendes luisl...@gmail.com: Here are some benchmarks (posted by the author of Factor?) comparing Factor against V8, LuaJIT, SBCL, and CPython: http://factor-language.blogspot.com/2010/05/comparing-factors-performance-against.html http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/

Re: [Factor-talk] Presentation and installation issues on Slackware64-14.1 Linux

2013-12-10 Thread Luis P. Mendes
Hi all, 2013/12/8 Jon Harper jon.harpe...@gmail.com: The reason factor needs *-dev packages is that factor needs a plain .so symlink in a directory searched by dlopen and Debian packages typically put these in dev packages whereas normal packages only install a *.so.soversion symlink. I

Re: [Factor-talk] Presentation and installation issues on Slackware64-14.1 Linux

2013-12-10 Thread OwnWaterloo
Yes, shootout doesn't contain Factor currently and the post(http://factor-language.blogspot.com/2010/05/comparing-factors-performance-against.html) explained the reason: I'd like to submit Factor to the computer language shootout soon. Before doing that, we need a Debian package, and the deploy

Re: [Factor-talk] Presentation and installation issues on Slackware64-14.1 Linux

2013-12-10 Thread John Benediktsson
After some more digging into the language, Factor does really feel like a very good language. But after some more searching, in http://planet.factorcode.org/ and the blogs pointed there, I come to realize that it seems that developers don't earn their living using Factor, except maybe for

Re: [Factor-talk] Presentation and installation issues on Slackware64-14.1 Linux

2013-12-08 Thread OwnWaterloo
Here are some benchmarks (posted by the author of Factor?) comparing Factor against V8, LuaJIT, SBCL, and CPython: http://factor-language.blogspot.com/2010/05/comparing-factors-performance-against.html http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/ contains more benchmarks for more programming

Re: [Factor-talk] Presentation and installation issues on Slackware64-14.1 Linux

2013-12-08 Thread Jon Harper
The reason factor needs *-dev packages is that factor needs a plain .so symlink in a directory searched by dlopen and Debian packages typically put these in dev packages whereas normal packages only install a *.so.soversion symlink. I don't know about Slackware but your error means you are