It would be nice to improve startup time. I imagine some low hanging fruits if we looked deeply into it. I'll make a note to get that on my list, unless someone looks into it sooner.
> On Jan 28, 2017, at 2:25 PM, pet...@riseup.net wrote: > > I spend a lot of time writing small scripts, often in bash. That is > becoming a more and more painful task as bash is a nice-enough language > on the first look but in the end it seems to go out of it's way to trip > you up with every character you type. I don't mean to rant, I know it's > an old language that has to keep a lot of backward compatibility and it > actually still serves very well for what it was designed for, as long as > your script stays <100 lines. Still, there's a lot to be desired. > > Factor is a cool language, it's very expressive, mature, has a lot of > libraries and has all sorts of tricks up its sleaves to bend it to your > will (much like lisp in that regard). It would be a fun experiment to > write a library or EDSL (embedded DSL) for bash-like scripting. However > there's a bone to be picked: > > $ time bash -c '' > bash -c '' 0.00s user 0.00s system 94% cpu 0.004 total > > $ time factor-vm -e='' > factor-vm -e='' 0.12s user 0.05s system 99% cpu 0.178 total > > I know one can create a custom image and maybe cut down on the startup a > bit, but my question is - would it be possible to cut it down to bash's > startup time *and* still have all the necessary vocabularies in it? I > don't want to know the startup time with a small image that has like > nothing in it, I can quickly test that myself. I'd need help to answer - > if you imagine the use case I'm talking about, include all the vocabs > that use case would need and make all other possible optimizations (if > there are) without sacrificing too much, can the startup reach similar > times? > > -- > ------------ > Peter Nagy > ------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Factor-talk mailing list > Factor-talk@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Factor-talk mailing list Factor-talk@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk
