On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Pander <[email protected]>wrote:
> Adam Jimerson wrote: > > On Thursday 12 November 2009 08:16:39 am Sebastian Spaeth wrote: > >> So has vala. Don't we have enough premature alpha quality on our > >> Freerunners already so that we need to add more instability and moving > >> bleeding-edge tech? > > > > I'm not saying jump on the Go bandwagon yet, something like this could be > > given time to mature before even considering it, I just want to know what > > everyone thinks about it > >> PS. BTW, buildhost is currently compiling what we hope to release as the > >> new shr-unstable right now. > > > > Thinks for letting us know, lets hope it builds, I personally hope that > #664 > > is resolved in the new release > > Does anyone know the speed-up for using Go compared to Python on a > FreeRunner/SHR platform for a /typical/ smart phone application? > > Second question, how similar is it to Python? Are APIs compatible or > even identical? > > I don't know how fast it is compared to python, espcially on the FR, as I don't think anyone tested it yet. Furthermore, IIRC Go is a compiled langauge and python is'nt, so there will probably be a big performance difference, but so is the difference between python and vala. As for APIs, from what I know, there's no API for anything for go, but vala has for everything (as it works with C bindings). -- Tom. >
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