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Subject: Re: Languages revisited. Functional language beats C for number cruncing

Author: Dan Andersson

Date: 07:02:26 01/10/03

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You can get as fine grained control over your data structures in Scheme as in C,
really. And complexity and knowledge is the domain often used as an example of
the eminent domain of these languages. The ill feelings and reservation most
people feel, IMO they originate from the 'toy' implementations of the past. And
of mistakes made when implementing an algorithm. I have seen up to many orders
of magnitude slowdowns come from errors in IO or the 'shadowing' of a defined
function. And global optimizations should not be impossible if the program is
truly written in a funtional style.

MvH Dan Andersson

• Re: Languages revisited. Functional language beats C for number cruncing Russell Reagan 15:53:29 01/10/03
  • Re: Languages revisited. Functional language beats C for number cruncing Dan Andersson 16:10:31 01/10/03
    • Re: Languages revisited. Functional language beats C for number cruncing Russell Reagan 16:29:15 01/10/03
      • Re: Languages revisited. Functional language beats C for number cruncing Dan Andersson 16:50:53 01/10/03

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