bearophile wrote: > Rory Mcguire: >> Takes 5m26.776s in Python. >> Takes 0m1.008s in Java. > > (I suggest you to round away milliseconds, they are never significant in > such benchmarks.) Python 2.7 uses its GC a bit better, so it can be a bit > faster. Your Java code has run four times slower than my slow PC, that's a > lot. In Java have you used the -server switch? > > Bye, > bearophile
On ubuntu 10.04 64 I'm using `time` to get the timing. I wan't using -server, with it I get 0m1.047s. D version gets 0m8.162s using a 32bit chroot environment. Processor is a core i7 @ (1.6Ghz * 8). 6GB ram. Interesting thing about the python one is it used 3GB of ram most of the time.