[stringtemplate-interest] ST4 faster then ST3, some quick numbers

[Collin Fagan]

* I read that as 2.66x faster *

*sigh* yes of course .. had my math upside down. That sounds much more like
the statement I made later about it being about twice as fast....

Collin

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Terence Parr <parrt at cs.usfca.edu> wrote:

>
> On Jan 20, 2011, at 5:43 AM, Collin Fagan wrote:
>
> > Warming up for 10,000 iterations before executing 1000 operations yields
> the following results.
> >
> > Total ST3 - Time:40.993
> > Total ST4 - Time:15.497
> >
> > So this indicates a 62% increase in speed.
>
> I read that as 2.66x faster vs 1.89x w/o warmup. :)  Anyway, st4 appears to
> be faster. warmup just emphasizes but doesn't matter if you are generating
> 10 emails or a tiny bit of source.
>
> > 62 is close enough to 47 that I don't think warming up makes much
> difference, but here it is.
> >
> > For me and the way I use ST I'm comfortable saying ST4 is about twice as
> fast as ST3 and I'm darn happy about that.
>
> Hooray!
>
> Oh, and i have yet to even *think* about optimizing ST4.
>
> T
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