Revolution speed sucks?

[Brian Yennie]

I also didn't mean to bash anyone back, if that's how it came across. 
In any case, I just didn't want Andy to feel singled out or shot back 
at.

Now that we've all kissed and made up, back to it!

Andy, I downloaded your Perl script and it's actually quite readable 
for Perl (which is in fact a great language despite the relative 
unreadability). Do you mind if I try doing a direct port into a Rev 
command-line script? I'm curious to see how the speed compares with 
almost identical scripts in the two different languages.

This seems like me like a good opportunity to do two things:

a) Test the raw engine speed by porting the Perl script as-is (it looks 
like it can be translated line-by-line pretty well)

b) See if there are any Rev tricks to make it even faster

Andy, do you mind if I use your Perl script as a basis for some of this 
comparing? I'd of course share all of the results.

Brian

>> * He already posted the URL for his perl script
>> ...
>
> Oops, I apologize. It did not appear to me that he had posted the Perl 
> code for comparison. I re-read the thread and found that he had done 
> so. Sorry Andy! That URL is 
> http://mywebpages.comcast.net/foxcat/PERLotto.zip
>
>> He hasn't exactly been rude or bashed Rev. If someone really feels 
>> threatened, feel free to write a Rev command-line script based on the 
>> Perl one and see how it does.
>
> The subject line bugs me. People do get protective of their favorite 
> programming tools you know :-)