🚀 go-pugleaf

"Alan L. Lovejoy" <alovejoy@concentric.net> wrote:

>Oliver Plohmann wrote:
>> 
>Bzzzt!  Not according to the benchmarks I've done.  Go benchmark the factorial or fibonacci 
>functions (implemented recursively) in both C and a good Smalltalk.  You are in for a big
>surprise.  The problem is NOT that message sends are slower than function calls
When I was on some interviews, the local company experts tried to
convince me that the message sends are the same as function calls. 
I am happy that at least somebody disagree with them, too.

>2) Much processing/data twiddling can be done by direct access into array and
>structure internals without the necessity of calling functions or sending messages.
That's what OO programming is not supposed to do. But I happily
violate all OO rules if I can get my program run more effeciently.



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*    Vlastimil Adamovsky                  *
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