World: r3wp

Possible.

Performancewise, 100 or 1000 seem most likely

1000 or 10'000 really

It's 1000:

http://en.allexperts.com/q/C-1040/time-milliseconds-Windows.htm

But stupid Windows measures wall-clock time instead of processor 
time

That explains why your measurement is pretty much the same as on 
my old CPU

I'm working on new benchmarks that you'll like :-)

Kaj - you should also be aware of this note iin the Libc docs:

— Macro: int CLOCKS_PER_SEC

The value of this macro is the number of clock ticks per second measured 
by the clock function. POSIX requires that this value be one million 
independent of the actual resolution.

Yes, that's already in the notes in my binding. See above (XSI-conformant 
systems)

I've just fixed the clocks-per-second value on Windows

New branch started: `libc-init`


First commit contains proper init code for libc on Linux. It works 
ok, but additional testing needs to be done. Also support for other 
platforms needs to be added.

https://github.com/dockimbel/Red/tree/libc-init

Any few words about what libc-init branch is about?

Trust me, you don't want to know. ;-)

The main point is being able to properly call this "beast" from Red/System: 
http://www.msbit.com:82/LSB/booksets/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/baselib---libc-start-main-.html

My Fibonacci benchmark results have scrolled way out of sight in 
the Other Languages group, so I'll repeat them here:

Syllable Server, AMD Athlon XP 1800+ (256 KB L2 cache)
				CPU Time		Relative
C (GCC -O3)			.14			1
C (GCC 4.4.3 i686)		.24			2
Red/System			.26			2
Ruby 1.8.7.248 (i486)	29			200
Boron (i486)			31			200
REBOL 3 2.100.111.4.4	41			300
ORCA (i486)			50			350
REBOL 2 2.7.7		55			400
World				10:27:00 *		> 260,000
*: Aborted after this time.

How is that R/S jumped so high? A different test this time?

Yes, that's what we discussed there. This one doesn't test floating 
point, but integer performance and function calling

As Doc explained, floating point performance is currently a bit hampered

Nice! :)

Raspberry Pi got Fedora Remix yesterday. Can't wait for the release, 
and getting Red running there :-)

Hi Doc, I know you'Re working on the lexer and I asked myself if 
you would use some toolset like the Coco/R compiler generator to 
help you for the next phase (parsing)? It seems it has already been 
converted for many other languages.  Here are the links for the user 
manual and the other resources for using it if necessary ... http://www.ssw.uni-linz.ac.at/Coco/Doc/UserManual.pdf
http://www.scifac.ru.ac.za/coco/

You may want to post on the REBOL4 world. Most conversation has moved 
there at this point.

Yes, you should be invited.