How fast is SIMPOL compared with SBL?
Although it is a little early to evaluate SIMPOL in every way for comparison to SBL, it is fairly clear that in many areas, SIMPOL is faster than SBL, in spite of the fact that it is doing quite a bit more (all SIMPOL strings are Unicode 3.2 strings in UCS2 format — 2-bytes per character currently). SIMPOL numbers have no floating point limitations because we don’t use floating point. SIMPOL integers have no realistic limitations in terms of size and scale. As time goes on, we will continue to evaluate the speed of SIMPOL where it appears to be slower than it should and will optimize those areas as required.
