[Gambas-user] updated benchmark

[Jussi Lahtinen]

Of course, and similarly well written code in C is safe. I only commented
on usage of the "unsafe" keyword.


Jussi

On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 8:54 AM Brian G <brian at westwoodsvcs.com> wrote:

> Why use C when gambas will do just fine.
> Unsafe is only a concept, well written code is safe.
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> Thanks
> Brian G
> Tuesday, 27 September 2022, 03:51PM -07:00 from Jussi Lahtinen
> jussi.lahtinen at gmail.com:
>
> Probably no particular reason, other than it is generally wise to avoid
> "unsafe".
> In my opinion, if you want to get closer to the "C territory" because of
> speed, then you could as well use C.
>
> Jussi
>
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 1:12 AM Brian G <brian at westwoodsvcs.com> wrote:
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> By adding fast unsafe to the start of primes.gbs the speed is orders of
> magnitude faster.
>
>
> Is there a reason not to do this for the benchmarks?
>
> 1.5 seconds gbs
> 5.7 seconds without fast unsafe gbs
> 16.217seconds for py
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>  each mistake teaches us something"  .. Morihei Ueshiba
> Brian G
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