2009/7/30 Darrin Thompson <[email protected]>: > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Paul Moore<[email protected]> wrote: >> [1] Simulate dealing and scoring a cribbage hand, many millions of >> times. Gather stats on the distributions of the results. Bonus points >> for making the hand generation and scoring procedures easy for the >> user to fiddle with (that bit seriously hurts languages with high >> function call overheads!) >> > > Don't underestimate factor without the very very latest compiler > improvements. I've been pleasantly surprised with the speed of naive > code.
I don't. But I'm comparing against hand-written C/C++ (which scores pretty low on readability, of course :-)) and I don't want to handicap Factor unnecessarily. I'll probably run the Factor code on both old and new versions, as a comparison. Paul. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Factor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk
