[Vala] Vala text processing performance

[Serge Hulne <serge hulne gmail com>]

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Fabian Deutsch <fabian deutsch gmx de> wrote:
> The attached code produces the following:
>
> $ time wc shaks12.txt ; time ./vwc shaks12.txt
>  124456  901325 5582655 shaks12.txt
>
> real    0m0.144s
> user    0m0.139s
> sys     0m0.004s
> lc = 124456. wc = 1293934
>
> real    0m0.161s
> user    0m0.157s
> sys     0m0.003s
>
> So a not so big difference. It really depends on how and what you code.
>
> - fabian


Looks a lot more promising indeed !

With the code of this example ("C-style Vala") the performance is
indeed very close to the one of C code.

Thanks !
Serge