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Re: benchmark: Eu wins again

• Posted by jbrown1050 at hotpop.com May 25, 2003
• 454 views

Wow ... scary...

Wonder how they (RDS) does it.

jbrown

On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 05:43:03PM +0200, Juergen Luethje wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> *interpreted* Euphoria (2.4 beta) clearly beats *compiled* PowerBASIC
> for DOS!
> 
> o I translated the benchmark program "Euphoria\demo\bench\sieve8k.exw"
>   to PowerBASIC, and compiled it using version 3.2 for DOS. The
>   resulting program is labeled 'PB' in the following table.
> 
> o The Eu statement
>      flags = repeat(ON, SIZE)
> 
>   translates to the PowerBASIC code
>      for i = 1 to %SIZE
>         flags(i) = %ON
>      next
> 
>   Because this obviously is slow, I made another version of the BASIC
>   program, where I replaced this code by an asm routine, using 'rep
>   stosw'. The resulting program is labeled 'PB+asm' in the following
>   table. Interpreted Eu is also much faster than this "patched" program.
> 
> 
> I got the following results (Pentium II 400 MHz processor, Win 98),
> using the command-line parameter 90000, as described in
> "Euphoria\demo\bench\":
> 
> 
> plain DOS
> -.-.-.-.-
>                     time measured     speed relative to ex.exe
>                     -------------     ------------------------
> PB    :             897,21 sec        3.7 times slower
> PB+asm:             687,39 sec        2.9 times slower
> ex.exe:             241,45 sec        1
> 
> 
> Windows
> -.-.-.-
>                     time measured     speed relative to exw.exe
>                     -------------     -------------------------
> PB     (DOS box):   904,57 sec        3.6 times slower
> PB+asm (DOS box):   693,43 sec        2.7 times slower
> exw.exe         :   252,89 sec        1
> 
> 
> Disclaimer:
> The latest PB/DOS version isn't 3.2, but 3.5.
> 32-bit PB/Windows generates faster programs than PB/DOS (I couldn't test
> it, because instead of buying it, I bought Euphoria. 
> 
> PowerBASIC Inc. claims: "PowerBASIC has long been associated with
> performance". I actually think this is true, but the cool thing is,
> that interpreted Euphoria is even more then 3.5 times faster than
> compiled PowerBASIC/DOS!!
> 
> Best regards,
>    Juergen
> 
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