Re: [Chicken-users] Hello World execution time

[Daniel Aquino]

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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