[Mono-list] lies and microbenmarks (Was: Mono 0.23 windows installer)

[Stefan Matthias Aust]

Fergus Henderson wrote:
> On 29-Mar-2003, Stefan Matthias Aust <sma@3plus4.de> wrote:
> 
>>Still you won't get efficient dynamic languages, no Lisp, no Smalltalk, 
>>no Ruby or Python.  Fortunatley, computers are probably fast enough to 
>>sacrify one order of magnitute of performance for better languages with 
>>better development performance (using python for rapid prototyping 
>>instead of C for example).
> 
> What makes you think that it will only be one order of magnitude?

Wild guess.  I remember an article by Aubrey Jaffer talking about his 
scheme interpreter being 10 times to 50 times slower than an equivalent 
C program. That's an order of magnitude.  My tiny smalltalk interpreter 
was running at 25.000 messages sends per second when a real Smalltalk 
system was able to do 500.000 message sends per second (on an old P100). 
Again an order of magnitude comparing an interpreter written in Java to 
a native code compiling system.

For fun, you might also want to look at the "Great Language Shootout" 
Scrpting languages like Python or Ruby get quite good ratings compared 
to C or Ocaml.  You shouldn't look at something like calculating the 
Ackermann function though.

bye
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