The Computer Language Benchmarks Game

[Owen Densmore]

Every month or so I check out the state of programming languages here:
   http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/

Note the *huge* number of languages they show, as well as four test  
environments: two with a single processor, and two with 4 processors.

I generally look at the single processor, 32 bit system:
   http://tinyurl.com/azw448
The bold numbers in the middle of the columns are the medians, so  
"representative".

As usual, Java seems to be doing fine.  Surprised to see JRuby doing  
better than vanilla Ruby, but a bit less than Ruby 1.9.  They're neck  
and neck, especially with the JRuby guys at Sun now.  Javascript is in  
the mix, just below python, and several new engines may get javascript  
considerably faster.

     -- Owen



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[Marcus G. Daniels]

Owen Densmore wrote:
> Every month or so I check out the state of programming languages here:
>   http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/
Note that in the best performing benchmarks, the GHC Haskell compiler
matches GNU C++ and beats Java and on other tests and platforms is
within a factor of two of Java.

Of course, what we are talking about here is for the most part compiler
investments, not mathematical properties of languages.   If the measure
for `optimizability' was by the language itself, th languages like
Haskell, Scheme, Clean, OCaml, F# etc. would win hands down.

What's to become of Java now that Oracle has eaten Sun?

Marcus



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[Douglas Roberts-2]

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--Doug

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Marcus G. Daniels <[hidden email]> wrote:

Owen Densmore wrote:

Every month or so I check out the state of programming languages here:
 http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/

Note that in the best performing benchmarks, the GHC Haskell compiler matches GNU C++ and beats Java and on other tests and platforms is within a factor of two of Java.

Of course, what we are talking about here is for the most part compiler investments, not mathematical properties of languages.   If the measure for `optimizability' was by the language itself, th languages like Haskell, Scheme, Clean, OCaml, F# etc. would win hands down.

What's to become of Java now that Oracle has eaten Sun?

Marcus

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