On 8/10/11 9:16 AM, Ted Roche wrote: > First pass on an old Pentium-M machine and VFP 7 yields: > > Lines: 5294 > Characters: 157296 > Elapsed: 0.050 > > Bear in mind that VFP is atrocious at benchmarking fractions of a > second. I believe the accuracy is around 1/50th of second.
I tweaked it to match as closely as possible the variable names from the Python script for comparison. Here's a single result running it on VFP8 on XP in a virtual machine on my 5-year old MacBook: lines, chars: 5294 157296 elapsed: 0.020 Here's a single result running the Python script on my overworked and aging Ubuntu server with Python 2.5.1: chars, lines: 162590 5294 elapsed: 0.00382995605469 seconds. The discrepancy in chars is exactly the # of lines, so I think the python script must be counting the new line character while the vfp script is not. As mentioned by others, benchmarking such a tiny thing is pointless. What catches my eye is the relative simplicity of the Python code. Theres a Unix utility called 'wc', which counts lines, words, and characters in a file. Here's the output on each: root@sg25:/var/www/paulmcnett.com/vfp_python_smackdown# wc count_lines.prg 14 45 291 count_lines.prg root@sg25:/var/www/paulmcnett.com/vfp_python_smackdown# wc count_lines.py 12 36 227 count_lines.py The Python script has 15% fewer lines, 20% fewer words, and 22% fewer characters. Again, probably a useless comparison for such a tiny script, but I've found the simplicity of Python syntax compared to other languages to be one of its greatest assets. Paul _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
