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Re: Is kawa good for....?


Chris <chris@bitmead.com> writes:

> Would kawa be suitable for mild number crunching apps? i.e. Various
> analysis of financial and stock market data? I don't expect it to beat
> fortran or anything, but is half decent in performance for an app like
> this?

Kawa's arithmetic primitives are reasonably well optimized, I believe.
However, currently the compiler doesn't really do any compile-time
analysis or optimization of Scheme arithmetic procedures, so you
will get a lot of function call overhead.

So I suspect Kawa, as currently implemented, may disappoint you.
But the best way to find out out is to experiment.  If you're
willing-able to write the "inner loops" in Java, that may be be
worth considering.
-- 
	--Per Bothner
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