Naive node.js faster than naive LDC2?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 02:08:40AM +0000, bachmeier via Digitalmars-d wrote:
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> I have no desire to dig into it myself, but I'll just note that if you
> check the CLBG, you'll see that it's not hard to write C and C++
> programs for this benchmark that are many times slower than Node JS.
> The worst of them takes seven times longer to run.

As described in my other post, my analysis of James' code reveals the
following issues:

1) Using class instead of struct;

2) Using real instead of double;

3) std.math.fmax calling the C library (involving a PIC indirection to a
shared library as opposed to inlineable native D code).

Addressing all 3 issues yielded a 67% improvement (from class + real + C
fmax -> struct + double + native fmax), or 37% improvement (from class +
double + C fmax -> struct + double + native fmax).

I don't have a Node.js environment, though, so I can't make a direct
comparison with the optimized D version.

I will note, though, that (1) and (2) are well-known performance issues;
I'm surprised that this was not taken into account in the original
comparison. (3) is something worth considering for std.math -- yes it's
troublesome to have to maintain D versions of these functions, but they
*could* make a potentially big performance impact by being inlineable in
hot inner loops.


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