nemesis <nam### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> Now, I'm probably all wrong and messed up here so if anyone cares may 
> correct me.  But I do feel JIT-compiled, bytecode compiled or even 
> native code compiled SDL would do nothing for performance except perhaps 
> make it worse should a more expressive and general language be used for 
> the next SDL.

  Rather than speculate, you could make actual tests.

  I once did that, out of curiosity. I made an ascii-mandelbrot generator
in both POV-Ray SDL and Perl (which is a byte-compiled, interpreted scripting
language). They were line-by-line almost identical to each other, just with
the correspondent syntax of each language. The Perl version was something
like 20 times faster than the SDL version.

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                                                          - Warp

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