OpenEuphoria

Re: Benchmarks

• Posted by Jeremy Cowgar <jeremy at c?wgar.c?m> May 13, 2008
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Michael J. Sabal wrote:
> 
> Just to allay the fears that all these enhancements are going to kill the
> speed with which Euphoria programs run, would it be possible to publish some
> benchmarks comparing version 2.5, 3.1, and 4.0?

Michael,

Would you be willing to create some valuable benchmarks (which is not an easy
thing to do) ? As far as new enhancements slowing things down, when you start to
use them, you will only see speed increases  It's not a miracle, you can look
at the methods in parser.e and compiler.e....

However, some benchmarks would be nice, but I do not think for the fact of the
recent new enhancements. I also think, as anyone who has done benchmarking would
agree, that benchmarking is highly subjective and difficult to come up with some
that are useful.

That being said, I think for exposure, Euphoria should become part of The
Computer Language Shootout (http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/).

Jason Glade created some/all (?) of those benchmarks in the archive. Search for
benchmark. Would you be willing to make sure they still all run and run them in
different versions of Euphoria and post the results?

Now, those benchmarks will not show any speed improvements as I am sure none of
them are doing any conditional compiling that we would normally do in our
applications/libraries. So, we would probably need some benchmarks on top of
those.

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Jeremy Cowgar
http://jeremy.cowgar.com