Re: [sc-users] Anyone tried haskell-supercollider ?

[Miguel Negrao <miguel.negrao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

so 4*30=120, that means c is 120x faster than sc lang ? wow. No wonder 
I'm having performance problems. I certainly don't want to back to c, 
that prospect gives me nightmires in the night...

see you, Miguel

Sciss escreveu:
> yes, in general. a while ago when i was trying out groovy as an 
> alternative, that was already 30x faster than pure sclang code, and 
> groovy is known to be rather slow compared to java (where scala's 
> performance is usually the same as java). code implemented in C 
> primitives ran around 3 to 4 times faster than the groovy code, so i 
> assume the equivalent in scala would not be much slower than C. of 
> course the JVM is not a hard realtime system per default, so an 
> important evaluation will be jitter under different GC modes and memory 
> settings. the main plus is actually that you will _not_ need to switch 
> to C code for performance critical things, and which composer wants to 
> write C code in 21st century, when a language like scala is at least as 
> expressive as sclang?
>
> ciao, -sciss-
>
>
> Am 29.07.2009 um 15:55 schrieb Miguel Negrao:
>
> > also I'm curious, would scala or haskel be faster than the sc language ?
> >
> > Miguel Negrão
> >
> > Thomas Girod escreveu:
> > > Reading the thread on the problems on big projects with SC, someone 
> > > talked
> > > about an alternative client based on the language Scala, which seems 
> > > to be
> > > interesting.
> > > But I know that there is already something based on Haskell, which would
> > > probably bring similar advantages, thanks to the expressiveness of 
> > > functional
> > > languages and specifically the type safety of Haskell.
> > > http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/hsc3
> > > So I have a few questions : - has anyone tried hsc ? What are your 
> > > impressions ?
> > > - If Sclang feels messy to you, does hsc feels less messy ? - Is 
> > > haskell's expressiveness actually useful (ie. making big use of neat
> > >   things such as folds and maps) ?
> > > - Is haskell's state of the art type-system useful to avoid bugs when 
> > > writing
> > >   SC patches ?
> > > cheers
> > > Tom
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