At 11:36 AM 10/6/2001 -0400, Bryan C. Warnock wrote:
>On Saturday 06 October 2001 10:58 am, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
>Unless we're already slower. ;-)
True, true. But we're not, which is good. A 200% speed improvement's sort
of good, depending on what ops we execute. And it looks like we execute
considerably more iterations of the actual loop than perl 5 does, which is
also good.
>(Which is what I wanted to check.)
I'm glad you did. Rational benchmarks are good, even if they tell us
something we don't want to hear... :)
Dan
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