Making Revolution faster with really big arrays

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Tue Apr 12 20:41:28 EDT 2005


Great info on the memory limits, Frank.  Thanks for that.

Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote:
> Again, though, with processor-intensive operations on huge data sets, 
> *any* scripting language is a poor choice.  You definitely want 
> native-compiled code for that.  Pascal, Ada, a compiled BASIC...

Of course the caveat is to choose your compiler wisely.  As we've seen, 
some BASIC "compilers" benchmark not much faster than Rev.  ;)

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