Revolution speed sucks?

[Richard Gaskin]

Brian Yennie wrote:

> BTW, I did indeed out of curiosity port the Perl code behind this
> thread almost line-by-line into MetaTalk. The result? No matter how
> hard I tried the Perl code ran at least 10% faster. Not a big
> difference, but the MetaTalk was NOT a clear winner by any means.
> 
> That doesn't mean Perl is faster. But on this particular script, it
> seems it's AT LEAST comparable.
> 
> Other tasks would get different results, different approaches could be
> taken with each tool, BOTH scripts could be optimized, etc, etc. But
> the point is, just because we love the speed of Rev, don't think that
> other languages always have to stink.
> 
> Personally, I'd still pick MetaTalk over Perl for a lot of tasks. But
> not all of them. And I wouldn't always make the right choice.

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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