Re: [Vala] Fwd: Why is Vala 10 times slower than C ?

[Serge Hulne <serge hulne gmail com>]

> Hint: Luca already told you why the vala version is slower...
>
>        Emmanuel.


Luca said:
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read_line() is not as cheap as a getline()
str.split() is not as cheap as strtok()
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In other words : text processing in *pure Vala* is a lot slower than
in C (or C++ for that matter)

Consequently :
Vala does not appear to be suited for heavy text processing tasks such
as NLP : natural language processing.
(unless there is an essential part of the concept of Vala that eludes me)


Serge.