[GAP Forum] Speed of GAP

[Steve Linton]

Dear GAP Forum

On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 13:03:10 -0500
"Bulutoglu Dursun A Civ AFIT/ENC" <Dursun.Bulutoglu at afit.edu> wrote:

> 	I was wondering, if I compiled my GAP code using GAC is there a
> guarantee that it will run as fast as the C version of my code?
> 	Dursun.
> 

No, I am afraid not. It is hard to be more precise without knowing what your
code is doing, but in general GAC will no produce code that runs as fast as
native C code. On the other hand, the compiled code can still draw on the full
resources of the GAP kernel and library, which stand-alone C code cannot.

	Steve

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