I wrote it as a MetaTalk script: that is, no GUI. It writes the results to a file. The main benefit that this ignores is the ability to pre-compile the script (which stacks do every time you save a script). When I pasted the same script into a button in the GUI (still no display, just running the script inside of the GUI) it ran about 10-20% faster.
Neither test was quite as fast as the Perl script, although it was pretty close. My guess is that for the basic operations it was performing (string manipulations, reading/writing to files) both languages are pretty fast.
Brian
Brian Yennie wrote:
Does the timing include the time taken to display the results? With the
rich text records created by Rev I wonder how it would compare with Perl if
the display portion of the code were omitted....
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