I think the speed rather depends on the garbage collection and the Rebol version The new 2.2.0.3.1 is around 4 secs slower than 2.1.1.3.1. Running on a Celeron 333 and Windows 2000 RCII 5 Consective runs in freshly started REBOL 2.1.1.3.1 start: now/time a: 9.0 b: 0.5 loop 1000 [loop 10000 [c: a ** b]] now/time - start == 0:00:22 >> start: now/time a: 9.0 b: 0.5 loop 1000 [loop 10000 [c: a ** b]] now/time - start == 0:00:40 >> start: now/time a: 9.0 b: 0.5 loop 1000 [loop 10000 [c: a ** b]] now/time - start == 0:00:44 >> start: now/time a: 9.0 b: 0.5 loop 1000 [loop 10000 [c: a ** b]] now/time - start == 0:00:22 >> start: now/time a: 9.0 b: 0.5 loop 1000 [loop 10000 [c: a ** b]] now/time - start == 0:00:24 5 Consective runs in freshly started REBOL 2.2.0.3.1 start: now/time a: 9.0 b: 0.5 loop 1000 [loop 10000 [c: a ** b]] now/time - start == 0:00:26 >> start: now/time a: 9.0 b: 0.5 loop 1000 [loop 10000 [c: a ** b]] now/time - start == 0:00:48 >> start: now/time a: 9.0 b: 0.5 loop 1000 [loop 10000 [c: a ** b]] now/time - start == 0:00:50 >> start: now/time a: 9.0 b: 0.5 loop 1000 [loop 10000 [c: a ** b]] now/time - start == 0:00:26 >> Cheers Allen K ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 1999 3:43 PM Subject: [REBOL] [REBOL] How fast is REBOL? Re:(2) > 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 > > > > >
