Thanks for the answer.
Best regards !
On Sunday, March 24, 2013 11:10:20 PM UTC+1, MarcWeber wrote:
> Excerpts from Zulox4's message of Sun Mar 24 11:43:30 +0100 2013:
>
> > Hello,
>
> > I wrote the P() Vimscript function to compute Π. A C language compiled
> > version take about 2 seconds to return the result (1200 chars string).
>
> > But the Vim script take about 47 seconds.
>
> > Could I do something to speed up the script ? Thanks.
>
> Again - VimL is known to be slow if you want to do massive computation.
>
> It simple is the wrong tool and was never designed to perform well for such
> use cases.
>
> Vim is a text editor only - which allows you to use external (speedy)
>
> tools in simple ways like this:
>
> <c-r>=system('pi 20')<cr> or such.
>
>
>
> pi could be a C program, or it could be written in JS (jitting), or
>
> julia or whatever language you like.
>
>
>
> > " Computing Π is a stress test for a computer--a kind of "digital
>
> > cardiogram." " -> from the book: "Blatner, David. 1997. The Joy of
>
> > Pi" .
>
> Why stress test VimL in this way? We all know it does not JIT - and that
>
> there are specialized languages to perform will for such use cases.
>
>
>
> Marc Weber
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