Oh no, another Euphoria vs. C comparison
- Posted by Davi Tassinari de Figueiredo <davitf at USA.NET> Aug 14, 2000
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--------------68FB5D9928E3F5517EC00273 Hello everyone, I'm sorry for being late about this; I only read last week's messages today. Anyway, after reading a message saying Euphoria is over 200 times slower than C, I decided to compare their speeds using something closer to real world programming than empty loops or any such thing. I found an Euphoria implementation of a simple (?) algorithm somewhere in my HD, modified it a bit and wrote a similar C program, which was compiled with the Borland C++ compiler (version 5.2), using the "Optimize for speed" option. The programs were run in my Pentium II-233, running Win98. So here are my results. The comparison does not consider many aspects of the languages, but may give an idea of their relative speeds. I am not a C expert, so maybe the C version could be made somewhat faster, but I think it will not be a big difference. The result: on average, the C version was about 6 times faster than the Euphoria one. I have included both versions, along with the program I used to benchmark them. If you want to get better results, try to optimize both the C and Euphoria versions, run them on different platforms, test different C compilers (I tried using DJGPP and it was 5.3 times faster then Euphoria) ... Rob, would it be possible for you to compile the Euphoria version and tell us how it compares to the others? I am curious! Regards, Davi Figueiredo davitf at usa.net --------------68FB5D9928E3F5517EC00273 name="bench.zip"