On May 26, 8:54 pm, Jorge <[email protected]> wrote: > On May 26, 2012, at 6:01 PM, Oliver Leics wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Bert Belder <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On May 25, 11:21 pm, Oliver Leics <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Jorge <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> It does not take 3 seconds to start it up. > > >>> Please explain: > > >>> $ time node -e 'i=1e7; while(i--);' > > >> Startup time should be in the order of 10s of milliseconds, so that's > >> not it. However, there's a simple explanation for it. > >> First of all, notice that `node -e` uses `eval()` (see > >> [...] > > > Thank you. > > > @Jorge > > > Please post the numbers for > > > echo "var i=1e7;while(i--);" > test.js && time node test.js > > > and > > > echo "var i=1e7;while(i--);" > test.js && time jsc test.js > > $ echo "var i= 1e7; while(i--);" > test.js && time node test.js > > real 0m0.074s > user 0m0.051s > sys 0m0.011s > > $ echo "var i= 1e7; while(i--);" > test.js && time jsc test.js > > real 0m0.047s > user 0m0.041s > sys 0m0.005s > -- > Jorge.
Well, here the startup time *does* matter. In fact, I think that startup time is the only cause of the observed time difference. - Bert -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
