What is the FASTEST Computer Language - 45 Tested: Round Two! (E02)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl9OegOorYM
I was wondering if someone might want to add a BBC BASIC implementation for the primes sieve to their GitHub project.
I think that it might also need BBC BASIC adding as a target language.
What is the FASTEST Computer Language - 45 Tested: Round Two! (E02)
Re: What is the FASTEST Computer Language - 45 Tested: Round Two! (E02)
Here's the repo:
https://github.com/PlummersSoftwareLLC/ ... PrimeBASIC
and here's a sieving thread:
viewtopic.php?p=251526#p251526
https://github.com/PlummersSoftwareLLC/ ... PrimeBASIC
and here's a sieving thread:
viewtopic.php?p=251526#p251526
Re: What is the FASTEST Computer Language - 45 Tested: Round Two! (E02)
Perhaps one using Matrix Brandy, which is a reasonably fast language. There is no chance of competing with any of my BASICs unfortunately, as they are notoriously some of the slowest BASIC's around.
Re: What is the FASTEST Computer Language - 45 Tested: Round Two! (E02)
I notice the project wants to build and run the prime program on standard consumer hardware. So: perhaps a chance to see how well beebjit can do, on a 6502 BBC Basic program? (Would we expect beebjit to be faster, or slower, than a native BBC Basic? I think I'd expect it to be slower: even though the interpreter is running as native code, it's still structurally only acting as an 8 bit machine - integers and floats will be quite slow to operate on.)
Edit: oh no, he's OK with giving a free pass to (almost all) even numbers - what a heresy!
Edit: oh no, he's OK with giving a free pass to (almost all) even numbers - what a heresy!
Re: What is the FASTEST Computer Language - 45 Tested: Round Two! (E02)
Since the languages are being compared solely on the basis of speed, interpreted languages presumably don't qualify anyway. Any BASIC in the running will have to be a compiled BASIC, which rules out BBC BASIC unless it's the subset of the language accepted by so-called 'BBC BASIC' compilers.
Re: What is the FASTEST Computer Language - 45 Tested: Round Two! (E02)
It turns out that slow and/or interpreted languages are quite welcome: I finished watching the video, and it's very pragmatic and even-handed. It's not really looking for the FASTEST, I think - although there is a leaderboard - it's looking for interesting illustrations of how to solve this problem, in different ways, with different languages.
Edit: the presenter is even asking for input on which small collections of languages to use together and compare.
However, I suspect there's a bit of difficult setup needed - it looks like the uncommon languages are expected to run from a docker image, and to me that's a bit out of scope. Which is to say, some learning and effort would be needed - I don't think it's terribly difficult.
Edit: the presenter is even asking for input on which small collections of languages to use together and compare.
However, I suspect there's a bit of difficult setup needed - it looks like the uncommon languages are expected to run from a docker image, and to me that's a bit out of scope. Which is to say, some learning and effort would be needed - I don't think it's terribly difficult.
Re: What is the FASTEST Computer Language - 45 Tested: Round Two! (E02)
But that's precisely what the description says: "What is the FASTEST Computer Language?"! If that's just intended to be provocative it has completely misfired with me, because I'm not going to watch a long video to the end to discover that it's not true.
Since BBC BASIC for SDL 2.0 already has editions for all the platforms supported by Docker - as does Matrix Brandy I think - it's an entirely unnecessary overhead for me.it looks like the uncommon languages are expected to run from a docker image, and to me that's a bit out of scope.
Re: What is the FASTEST Computer Language - 45 Tested: Round Two! (E02)
It's unfortunate, but yes, I think that's it - a provocative title, and a series of relatively long videos. That's what happens these days - it's not my cup of tea either. I'll often read the transcript instead of watching, but of course different people have different preferences.
Re: What is the FASTEST Computer Language - 45 Tested: Round Two! (E02)
The title to use the modern parlance is Clickbait.
I have found the few videos of his that I have watched interesting and informative, although I have been selective.
When you look at the counts of programming language mentions on the web, BBC BASIC has its own category, separate from BASIC and I didn't want it to miss out here if someone would have added it.
I have found the few videos of his that I have watched interesting and informative, although I have been selective.
When you look at the counts of programming language mentions on the web, BBC BASIC has its own category, separate from BASIC and I didn't want it to miss out here if someone would have added it.