Re: [Chicken-users] Hello World execution time

[Daniel Aquino]

Here's one of the links: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Simple_unix_tools



On 3/13/11, Daniel Aquino <address@hidden> wrote:
> Haskell should be just as fast as c especially for something that
> basic.  There is a whole set of common unix utilities implemented in
> very short one liners.
>
> On 3/13/11, John J Foerch <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Tobia Conforto <address@hidden> writes:
>>> "Hello,
>>>
>>> World execution time"—may not be the most meaningful of benchmarks, but
>>> it's
>>> pretty important when you are writing shell scripts / cron jobs / random
>>> commandline utilities. It also serves to compare the startup overhead of
>>> different execution environments. So I ran this benchmark for my own
>>> curiosity
>>> and I thought you might like the results.
>>>
>>> Rules:
>>>
>>>   * the program should print "Hello, World!\n" and exit cleanly;
>>>   * no "benchmark modes" that would hinder real-world use of the
>>> language
>>> are
>>>     allowed;
>>>   * no -e allowed: each program should run from its own file (source,
>>> bytecode
>>>     or machine language as it may be.)
>>>
>>>
>>> I ran these on a fast, otherwise idle machine, doing 10 runs to warm it
>>> up, and
>>> then taking the median real time of 101 runs. (So yes, I like the median
>>> more
>>> than the mean, when measuring things.)
>>>
>>> [cid]
>>>
>>> The choice of languages is arbitrary. C is compiled, Mono and Java are
>>> poor-man's-compiled, the rest is interpreted. As for Chicken, don't
>>> bother
>>> asking: there is but a 2ms difference between csi and csc -O4 -block. I
>>> would
>>> have included Clojure, as I find the language itself not without its
>>> merits,
>>> but the current implementation is 4 times slower than plain Java and
>>> skewed the
>>> graph badly ;-)
>>>
>>> So that pretty much settles the question for me!
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>> Tobia
>>
>>
>> This is very interesting.  I would be interested to see haskell among
>> the set.
>>
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>> John Foerch
>>
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