Re(4): Artificial Intelligence Programming in Perl

[cjf]

in reply to Re: Re: Re: Artificial Intelligence Programming in Perl
in thread Artificial Intelligence Programming in Perl

I agree with your disagreement ;).

As I'm learning more about the subject (link, link, link) I can see how execution time could be very important. I've also noticed that a lot of the AI projects/libraries out there tend to have a few very computationally expensive parts, and many not so expensive parts. Wouldn't such a case be perfect for a Perl-Inline::C combination?

Or am I just showing my Perl bias?

[demerphq]

Or am I just showing my Perl bias?

No I agree.

Perl would be ideal for much of the framework. But the kernal (ykwim) needs to be as efficient as possible. Inline::C would seem to be an ideal compromise.

Yves / DeMerphq
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Writing a good benchmark isnt as easy as it might look.

[samtregar]

Perhaps, but don't forget that the Perl-XS barrier is an expensive one to cross. Every call from Perl to C and from C to Perl creates memory accesses and runs lots of code.

I found this out firsthand working on a QuakeIII Perl API. During development I took a lot of shit from the QuakeIII people about how Perl would be too slow to write a QuakeIII bot (which is basically a simple AI project). I thought I could beat the system with a mix of Perl and XS. Well, I was wrong.

-sam