Prothon gets Major Facelift in Vers 0.1.0 [Prothon]

[Mark Hahn]

"Robin Becker" <robin at SPAMREMOVEjessikat.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Mark Hahn wrote:
> > "Robin Becker" <robin at SPAMREMOVEjessikat.fsnet.co.uk> wrote
> >
> >
> >>In fact the python time for fib(35) was about 31.1 seconds (ie less than
> >>prothon for fib(25)) so something is spectacularly amiss with prothon.
> >
> >
> > Yes, and that something is that Prothon is pre-alpha and full of debug
code.
> > Take a look at the interpreter loop in interp.c and the reason will be
> > obvious immediately.  We are not going to be addressing efficiency until
> > after the language is designed in July.
> >
> > One step at a time...
>
> Wasn't criticising. I expected some degredation from an early version,
> but this seems too much. From the memory usage I would guess that
> perhaps the frames aren't being released.

Oh, I didn't realize you were talking about memory.  We do have serious
memory and object leaks.  Maybe the garbage collector isn't working right.
That area is also waiting for July as we are considering it part of
performance.