Prothon gets Major Facelift in Vers 0.1.0 [Prothon]

[Robin Becker]

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.
-- 
Robin Becker