[computer-go] Re: language efficiency

[Gunnar Farnebäck]

Forrest Curo wrote:
 > So Scheme is one of the languages I've been considering, and in the
 > process I stumbled upon a list of programs it was used to write. One of
 > them: GIMP (Graphic Images Manipulation Program). Relevance?--Graphic
 > images of any detail are enormous chunks of data; doing even a simple
 > computation on one of these files has got to require a lot of
 > bit-crunching, which used to be pretty time-consuming even when I was
 > processing low-resolution grayscale photos for a monthly tabloid. I
 > haven't run a direct comparison with GIMP's commercial rivals, but it's
 > impressively fast by my standards...

If something seems too good to be true, it is. All the heavy lifting
in GIMP is done by C code, with scheme available as a scripting
language on top.

/Gunnar