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 languages(including C++).
I'm not familiar with Slackware. But on my Ubuntu system, Factor(even the pre-compiled binary) needs some *-dev* packages. For instance, the gui listener needs the libgtkglext1-dev package. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sponsored by Intel(R) XDK Develop, test and display web and hybrid apps with a single code base. Download it for free now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=111408631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Factor-talk mailing list Factor-talk@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk
