OpenEuphoria

Re: Regarding EU benchmarks

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Feb 23, 2003
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Aku writes:
> So it's different than that on the bench.doc (470 ms)
> What makes it very different?

In bench.doc I've compared all times with the start-up time
removed. I also ran the Euphoria program with 90000, rather
than 900, in order to get a more accurate measurement.
For the other languages, 900 lets the program run for a reasonable
amount of time. For Euphoria, it only takes a fraction of a second.
You can't time less than a second very reliably, especially 
with other stuff going on in the background on your system.

Although Euphoria starts up as fast or faster than the others,
I wasn't interested in that. It varies too much depending
on whether the O/S has the program cached in memory cache, 
or on disk etc. Most people want to know how fast their code
will run, not whether the interpreter takes 0.2 or 0.5 seconds to start.

When I run your .bat, I get numbers that are reasonably in line with
what I reported. Maybe your cache memory is different. The 8K 
sieve is very sensitive to cache effects.

Regards,
   Rob Craig
   Rapid Deployment Software
   http://www.RapidEuphoria.com