[Mono-list] tiny benchmark of current mono clr, java clr, ms clr

[Daniel Mettler]

re all,

On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Guenther Roith wrote:
> You shouldn't print anything to the console, because this tests how fast
> your os can scroll the terninal window.
> Do somehthing else like only counting.

well, it's certainly affected by, but obviously this tiny bench
does not solely measure the performance of the terminal/console
and its scrolling. else the measured differences (most of them
being significant at a confidence level of 95%) between the
runtime environments of the same os platform could not be
explained.

the bench could be much better of course :) admittedly, i did not
take the time to write a nice, more or less representative
benchmark (which is a difficult "political" task btw). but this
was not the goal anyway. i just wanted to quickly compare the
relative performance of the runtime environments for that
particular task. there is no claim for representation or
generalization at all. and i did not want to compare linux vs.
windows either (perhaps the second point in the conclusions is
misleading, i think i should remove it).

nevertheless i was surprised by some of the results. regardless
of the influence of the terminal performance itself i expected a
"home run" of the ms clr on windows. but mono appears to be
significantly faster (in the context of this specific task). as
well, i did not expect mono to beat java on windows (dito). i do
not know the reason for this however (perhaps you know?).

another thing which surprised me were the quite different cil
file sizes generated with the mono and ms compiler respectively.
i did not further analyze this though.

regards

dan

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