[Jprogramming] atomic vs. string representations

['Pascal Jasmin' via Programming]

Parsing is pretty fast, so hard to measure.

One big thing "against" linear representations executed with do(".) is that it can only return a noun.






On Sunday, May 3, 2020, 07:51:32 p.m. EDT, Raoul Schorer <raoul.schorer at gmail.com> wrote: 





Hi all,

I have been comparing manually built identical phrases (a dyadic verb 
with its arguments) and executing it with ". or `:6. My understanding 
was that the advantage of atomic representation was that it bypassed 
parsing and that the execution model was:

input string -> parsing -> atomic representation -> interpretation -> result

However, I was surprised to see no speedup at all when transitioning 
from string to atomic representation. Of course, my particular code may 
be the issue. What are the usual strengths and weaknesses of string vs. 
atomic representation?

Thanks!

Raoul

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