Comments on Re: Factor: Factor 0.95 now available

Haven't updated the road map lately. We'r...

2012-08-27T08:50:10.845-07:00

Haven't updated the road map lately. We're presently very excited to merge some compiler improvements that are being contributed by Alex Vondrak.

In addition to various ongoing library and performance improvements, I think we hope to add a package management tool that allows more contributions from the community. Also, it would be great to allow the use of more high-level concepts in the internal bootstrap process.

Some major UI improvements are scheduled and as always we'd love any contributions or direction to what itches need to be scratched first.

Best,

Is there a road map for Factor to 1.0? The road ma...

2012-08-24T17:28:24.557-07:00

Is there a road map for Factor to 1.0? The road map on concatenative seems to be a bit out of date.

These are more useful

2012-08-17T19:31:47.783-07:00

These are more useful

I should mention the above benchmarks are 0.95 ver...

2012-08-17T10:29:28.450-07:00

I should mention the above benchmarks are 0.95 versus 0.94 on Mac OS X 10.8.

@Unknown: I don't have any comparisons that ar...

2012-08-17T10:28:20.210-07:00

@Unknown: I don't have any comparisons that are meaningful against other languages yet, but if you're curious I can share some benchmarks (lower is better):

Ant: 0.207 versus "took too long to finish"
Backtrack: 0.254 versus 0.954
Completion: 0.875 versus 1.221
CSV: 0.165 versus 0.456
Hashtables: 0.792 versus 2.512
JSON: 0.431 versus 1.038
Random: 0.208 versus 2.135
Regexp: 0.332 versus 0.432
Sum-file: 0.390 versus 0.516
UI panes: 0.996 versus 1.979 (second run 0.077 versus 0.317)
XML: 0.701 versus 1.416

Any speed comparisons?

2012-08-16T23:02:20.719-07:00

Any speed comparisons?