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Subject: Re: Icon compiler
From: Steve Wampler <swampler@noao.edu>
To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ladv=E1nszky_K=E1roly?= <aa@bb.cc>
Cc: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
Date: 09 Dec 2002 09:23:00 -0700
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On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 01:30, Ladvánszky Károly wrote:
>
> Well ... I have this Fibonacci test for benchmarks. With MS C ++ it takes 8
> secs to calculate the result for 40 as input and for Icon it takes about 600
> secs. Now with even 3 times speed improvement, it'd still be 200 secs for
> Icon. Given that, I think it's very exaggerated to say Icon programs can be
> faster than C. However slow compared to C, I do recognise Icon's power and
> I'm considering adding it to my software toolchest.
Wow - that must be some benchmark - can we see the Icon version? I
ask because computing the first 40 Fibonacci numbers takes no time
at all - so you must be doing a lot more in your benchmark. I'm curious
as to what it is...
Thanks
Steve
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Steve Wampler <swampler@noao.edu>
National Solar Observatory