At 03:18 PM 10/6/2001 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: >On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 12:44:59AM -0400, Bryan C. Warnock wrote: > > Ops/sec:31,716,577.291820 > >Wowsers. What are you running that thing on? > >For comparison, on this machine: >Parrot Ops/sec: 5000000.000000 >Python2 ops/sec: 3289276.607351 >(Python 1 is slightly faster - at the moment.)
What ops, though? >What are we doing wrong? It's the function pointer indirection, to some extent. The switch dispatch loop should help some. Also I don't think you should make too many performance comparisons until we've got something equivalent to compare with. Dan --------------------------------------"it's like this"------------------- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk