[Gambas-user] Gambas is slower than Python??

[birchy]

Benoit Minisini wrote:
> Can you show us the code in Python? Maybe it will help me to find
> something 
> that could be enhanced in Gambas if Python can do better? :-)

Ok, i think the bottleneck is related to the function call overhead:

PYTHON: wrote:
> 
> import time
> 
> t = time.time()
> for i in range(999999):
>     s = "QWERTYUIOP".partition("WE")[2].partition("IO")[0]
> print time.time() - t
> 

GAMBAS: wrote:
> 
> PUBLIC SUB Main()
>   DIM i AS Integer, t AS Float, s AS String
>   
>   t = Timer
>   FOR i = 0 TO 999999
>     s = Scan("QWERTYUIOP", "*WE*IO*")[1]
>   NEXT    
>   PRINT Timer - t
> END
> 

Both of these run significantly faster when put in-line but Python is still
~33% faster. Perhaps you could add a new string function to achieve this as
it is VERY useful, yet rarely (if ever) seen in other languages?
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