No scientific stats in this post, but ZPEX hit an average of 13ms with the Standard Algorithms when passing it through the runtime. After a lot of profiling and working with ChatGPT to give me ideas for places to look for performance issues, I discovered some bugs that I fixed, such as calling the garbage collector when destroying a ZPE variable. As a result, standard ZPE can now run it through the runtime in 54ms on average. It's compiled in less than 60ms too due to the new version 6 of the Zenith Parsing Engine that powers the compiler.
I still cannot believe this; the performance of ZPEX overall is astounding - it takes just 8ms more than Python's best result to compile and run the exact same code translated to Python, running the whole ZPEX in just 52ms - compiling in 12 milliseconds, 14 milliseconds for running it, and so the rest is start-up.
ZPE is actually becoming exceedingly useful and powerful. I'm now actively converting all my web server scripts from PHP to YASS and compiling them as native scripts.
ZPE version 1.14.8, the absolute biggest release of ZPE in a long time (which I considered bumping up to ZPE 2.0 because it's so significant), will be released on the 1st of August. More will follow on release day, but I honestly mean this: this version of ZPE is incredible.
