Language Shootout

[Don Clugston]

janderson wrote:
> Dave wrote:
>> Dan Wrote:
>>
>>> Hi guys,
>>>
>>> This idea will only work with Walter in on it.  : p  I was thinking 
>>> that we might go through the various benchmarks in "the language 
>>> shootout" and find out those items where D is significantly behind 
>>> for any reason, and correct the performance.
>>>
>>> For example, against Eiffel, you see their Fasta implementation is 38 
>>> times faster than D's.  Why not compile the code, find out how it 
>>> works and see why D's that much slower - and then Walter can fix the 
>>> code?
>>>
>>
>> Huh? D is a tad better on one machine and just a bit slower on the 
>> other machine (on the Shootout). Maybe there was some sort of problem 
>> on the site when you looked at it?
>>
>> http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=fasta&lang=all
>>
>> http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/debian/benchmark.php?test=fasta&lang=all 
>>
>>
> 
> There's something radically different about those 2 benchmarks.  I know 
> Intel can be slow but 14times slower.  Either the algorithm is 
> different, the input data is different, the machine configuration is 
> massively different or AMD kicks ass for this algorithm.

N= 2.5 million in one case, N=25 million in the other.

> 
> -Joel