Re: [Cardinal-dev] Ruby benchmarks for Parrot

[Dan Sugalski]

At 5:37 PM +0000 3/11/04, address@hidden wrote:
> Dan,
>
> It's good to hear that objects are at least partly working in Parrot now.

You're not the only one. :) Things are moving along faster than I 
expected, too, which is nice.

> So this benchmarking you're doing is to compare the current implementation of
> Ruby against a future Ruby/Parrot?

The benchmarking's an attempt to get roughly equivalent programs in 
every language we can reasonably get our hands on (meaning perl, 
python, and ruby right now) and run them against a version of the 
program in parrot assembly or pir so we can see how the performance 
compares.

> Also, where should we head over to?

at the moment, it's still at address@hidden We're still 
trying to get the name changed (and get 
address@hidden working, for more compiler-oriented 
discussion) but it's slow going--admins with far too much to do and 
too little time.

> Finally, I'm kind of surprised that this list still works.  Just to update
> anyone who is still on this list, we've moved the Cardinal project over to
> Rubyforge ( http://rubyforge.org/projects/cardinal/ ).  There's a preliminary
> cardinal (0.0.1) over there.  The focus right now has to be on the frontend.
> There has been some discussion of which parser to use (ripper, ruth, rockit's)
> so the current preliminary cardinal allows you to choose the one you 
> want to use
> until we can settle on one.  Thanks to Mark Sparshatt for doing all 
> the work so far.

Ah, I'm always the last to know. :) I've just subscribed to the 
mailing list there, so I'll move the discussion that-a-way.

> Phil
>
> >  Folks,
> >
> >  Now that we've got objects at least partly working for Parrot, we're
> >  starting to collect up some benchmarks in various languages to see
> >  where we've gotten it horribly wrong. We've got parrot and perl
> >  covered well, so that's not a problem. A few folks are pitching in on
> >  the ruby and python end of things, but more eyes and fingers are
> >  always good, so if you're still interested now'd be a good time to
>  > head over and take a look.
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