Falcon 0.9.4

[btiffin]

A new Falcon release has been posted. http://www.falconpl.org/index.ftd?page_id=official_download

Nice. Fixes to the interactive mode now make it a much more friendly learning and exploration environment.

One of the new additions is list comprehensions

code:

sorted = Set().comp( ["oranges", "apples", "peaches", "bananas", "grapes" ] ) for item in sorted: > item

And the little engine is still pretty snappy...
sieve.fal one of the benchmarks shipped with the source tarball

code:

/*    FALCON - Benchmarks    FILE: sieve.fal    Timed Sieve of Eratosthenes.        Measures performance how many computational loops are performed    in  a given amount of time.        See also "sieve_mt.fal"    -------------------------------------------------------------------    Author: Giancarlo Niccolai    Begin:    -------------------------------------------------------------------    (C) Copyright 2008: the FALCON developers (see list in AUTHORS file)    See LICENSE file for licensing details. */ // Config const SIZE = 8092 const BATCH = 100 const TIME = 30 flags = arrayBuffer( SIZE+1 ) //========================= // The sieve //========================= function sieve()    global count    flags.fill(0)    for i in [1:SIZE+1]       if flags[i]: continue                   prime = 2 * i + 1       start = prime + i       for k in [start:SIZE+1:prime]          flags[k] = 1       end    end    count += i end //========================= // Main code //========================= count = 0 cycles = 0 t = seconds() //while seconds() < t + TIME   // Test for TIME (30) seconds     for iter in [0:BATCH]        sieve()     end     cycles += BATCH //end t = seconds() - t f = Format( ".3" ) > f.format( t ), " seconds." > count, " sieves." > f.format(count / t), " sieves per second"

Results on an old P4 machine

code:

1.544 seconds. 809200 sieves. 523979.534 sieves per second

Cheers

Edit; fixed some bbcode