On Sep 1, 9:46 pm, John Fingerhut <andy.finger...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks to many people on this list in Aug 2009 who helped improve my code, > to Johannes Friestad for writing a nice fast Clojure program using deftype > for the n-body problem, to Isaac Gouy for setting up the shootout web site > to accept Clojure submissions, and to my having more time than good sense to > work on this, there are now Clojure programs for 5 of the 10 shootout web > site benchmark problems.
iirc Clojure won't show up on the summary pages until there are 7 programs implemented. Nontheless I've put Clojure on the home page. > You can see a brief summary of results comparing > run time, memory, and code size against "Java 6 -server" here: > > http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all〈=clo... > > Note: All Clojure programs are AOT compiled before any time measurements are > made when running the program. The programs are short enough that I believe > the longest one was around 1.5 or 2 seconds on my MacBook Pro, but that time > isn't included on the web site results. > > Are there improvements that could be made to the Clojure programs to make > them faster? Most likely so. I doubt very much these are the fastest ones > possible. I have not written any Java code for these solutions. I am sure > that when push comes to shove in improving the run time of parts of a > real-world program that were performance-critical, most programmers would > optimize using Java or even C/C++. The goal here was to see what could be > done without using those techniques. > > If people want to beat each other up using the shootout web site's results, > I would probably recognize in them some of the "my language is best for > every purpose" attitude I once had as a teenager. Now I just see it as one > of several ways to evaluate a programming language, and often not the most > important one. > > Thanks, > Andy > > On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Isaac Gouy <igo...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > On Aug 26, 8:37 am, John Fingerhut <andy.finger...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I have now submitted small modifications that permit AOT compilation. > > The > > > compile time was small -- on the order of 1 to 2 sec of the total CPU > > time, > > > which is often a small percentage of the long runs that are reported on > > the > > > shootout web site. > > > > But of course it is better if it is not included in the reported times, > > > which it soon will not be. > > > AOT compiled > > >http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32q/program.php?test=mandelbrot&la... > > >http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32q/program.php?test=regexdna&lang... > > >http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32q/program.php?test=knucleotide&l... > > > > Andy > > > > On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 12:26 AM, Meikel Brandmeyer <m...@kotka.de> > > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > On 26 Aug., 07:58, Isaac Gouy <igo...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > > > Have you actually measured the time difference? > > > > > Compare the mandelbrot numbers for Haskell, Java and Scala. The ranges > > > > are (0.07s 0.86s 13s), (0.19s 0.86s 12s), (0.22s 0.97s 15s). So Java > > > > and Scala are not slower than Haskell, but the low iteration numbers > > > > say something different. So you don't measure what you claim you > > > > measure. And the fact that things vanish asymptotically doesn't fix a > > > > broken methodology. > > > > > Sincerely > > > > Meikel > > > > > -- > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > > Groups "Clojure" group. > > > > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > > > > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > > > > your first post. > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<clojure%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > <clojure%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com<clojure%252bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > > > > For more options, visit this group at > > > >http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Clojure" group. > > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > > your first post. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<clojure%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
