[Swift-user] Performance of Swift

[J A]

Thanks ...

On 6/7/08, Ben Clifford <benc at hawaga.org.uk> wrote:
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> > > Do you think changing the whole program into Swift script is necessary
> or
> > > just certain sections?  Can i just use wrappers around certain tasks
> and use
> > > Swift Script to call these tasks?
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> Almost definitely do not convert that whole program into SwiftScript -
> Swift is not intended to efficiently execute "short" operations like
> string operations. It would deal better with plugging together larger
> pieces of your application (eg pieces that take minutes to run), with
> those implemented in (in your case) perhaps C.
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> To get decent benefit, though, I think you will need to figure out which
> pieces can run in parallel - breaking your app into eg 4 pieces and then
> only running them in sequence won't give much/any performance improvement.
>
> You program looks almost, but not quite, like a genetic algorithm
> implementation; and there is a lot on the web about parallelising those.
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