Pike 7.6 Released

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Posted by timothy on Wednesday May 5, 2004 @09:16AM from the fighting-words dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Today version 7.6 of the Swedish programming language Pike was released. Some of the noteworthy additions are support for the Bittorrent protocol, the OBEX protocol (to communicate with cellular phones), IPv6, PGP and Bz2. If you want to beat the crap out of your Python/Perl program speedwise, try porting it to Pike..."

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Re:Someone please explain to me.. by arhar · 2004-05-05 09:28 · Score: 3, Informative

For example, if Java supported BitTorrent, it could look like this:

BitTorrent torrent = new BitTorrent();
torrent.get("Star Wars Episode 3.avi"); ...
Re:Someone please explain to me.. by Vaevictis666 · 2004-05-05 09:29 · Score: 4, Informative

BitTorrent support can be added as a module, built-in functions, etc.
It's the same as how PHP supports the ftp protocol.
Re:How much faster? by mykdavies · 2004-05-05 09:45 · Score: 2, Informative

The language shootout page gives an idea - it's up there with Java!

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Pike 7.6 adds RDF and OWL support, too. by Leif+Stensson · 2004-05-05 10:28 · Score: 3, Informative

There is at least one more noteworthy addition in Pike 7.6: the support for the semantic web formats RDF and OWL.
Re:How much faster? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-05-05 10:37 · Score: 3, Informative

Things have changed quite a bit, still a bit behind java though (see this more recent shoot out); OTOH I hear a *lot* has happened between 7.4 and 7.6.

The biggest nicety with pike is not the speed though .. it's the way of writing code. It's just lovely.
Re:How much faster? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-05-05 10:49 · Score: 1, Informative

Rerunning parts of the shootout with recent versions of the most interesting languages gives this for me (do view source for proper formatting):
row 1: ackermann 8 row 2: ary3 7000 row 3: fibo 32 row 4: hash 1000000 row 5: hash2 200 row 6: heapsort 100000 row 7: lists 128 row 8: methcall 1000000 row 9: nestedloop 20 row 10: objinst 1000000 row 11: random 1800000 row 12: sieve 1000 row 13: strcat 5000000 Java PHP Perl Pike Python Ruby TCL 1: 4.13 12.72 4.89 0.61 4.55 9.32 Failed (ackermann) 2: 1.69 11.87 4.85 1.38 3.06 8.61 14.88 (ary3) 3: 2.90 12.09 6.69 1.44 4.27 6.96 11.57 (fibo) 4: 6.85 5.92 5.57 4.71 3.69 17.90 7.83 (hash) 5: 7.15 4.95 3.98 2.28 2.93 3.98 5.11 (hash2) 6: 1.53 8.59 3.57 1.12 2.54 6.29 8.34 (heapsort) 7: 5.54 Missing 3.21 2.76 2.06 2.43 27.30 (lists) 8: 2.18 Missing 6.70 2.15 4.68 3.47 Missing (methcall) 9: 7.30 Failed 17.92 0.90 13.52 35.70 34.25 (nestedloop) 10: 3.65 Missing 13.08 3.34 5.68 6.19 Missing (objinst) 11: 1.99 5.81 2.33 2.30 2.94 5.96 5.85 (random) 12: 6.59 Failed 12.27 4.66 9.77 18.19 50.58 (sieve) 13: 3.19 4.63 2.30 1.78 4.46 3.73 7.05 (strcat)
Re:How much faster? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-05-05 11:14 · Score: 5, Informative

Rerunning parts of the shootout with recent versions of the most interesting languages gives this for me (do view source for proper formatting): row 1: ackermann 8 row 2: ary3 7000 row 3: fibo 32 row 4: hash 1000000 row 5: hash2 200 row 6: heapsort 100000 row 7: lists 128 row 8: methcall 1000000 row 9: nestedloop 20 row 10: objinst 1000000 row 11: random 1800000 row 12: sieve 1000 row 13: strcat 5000000 Java PHP Perl Pike Python Ruby TCL 1: 4.13 12.72 4.89 0.61 4.55 9.32 Failed (Ackermann) 2: 1.69 11.87 4.85 1.38 3.06 8.61 14.88 (ary3) 3: 2.90 12.09 6.69 1.44 4.27 6.96 11.57 (fibo) 4: 6.85 5.92 5.57 4.71 3.69 17.90 7.83 (hash) 5: 7.15 4.95 3.98 2.28 2.93 3.98 5.11 (hash2) 6: 1.53 8.59 3.57 1.12 2.54 6.29 8.34 (heapsort) 7: 5.54 Missing 3.21 2.76 2.06 2.43 27.30 (lists) 8: 2.18 Missing 6.70 2.15 4.68 3.47 Missing (methcall) 9: 7.30 Failed 17.92 0.90 13.52 35.70 34.25 (nestedloop) 10: 3.65 Missing 13.08 3.34 5.68 6.19 Missing (objinst) 11: 1.99 5.81 2.33 2.30 2.94 5.96 5.85 (random) 12: 6.59 Failed 12.27 4.66 9.77 18.19 50.58 (sieve) 13: 3.19 4.63 2.30 1.78 4.46 3.73 7.05 (strcat)