35 seconds on my AMDK6 2D 300MHz running RedHat 6.0 Jim > > Just doing some tests of REBOL 2.2 floating point speed. On a > 450 MHz P2 > > running Win98, at the console I get: > > > > >> start: now/time a: 9.0 b: 0.5 loop 1000 [loop 10000 [c: a ** b]] > > now/time - start > > == 0:00:20 > > > > The overhead for the empty loop is about 1 second. I am interested in > what > > others get with different platforms and processors, or even functionally > > identical loop in other scripting languages. On my machine, REBOL is > > slightly faster than VBScript for the floating point, but the VBScript > loop > > overhead is about 6 seconds. > > > > Cheers > > > > Larry > >
