benchmarking against other languages

2011-02-13 Thread Richard Hainsworth
Before doing any more work on this benchmarking project, I was wondering if any one else thinks the effort is worth it. Although it is early days, it seemed reasonable to start setting up a framework for benchmarking perl6 algorithms against implementations/releases and against other language

Re: benchmarking against other languages

2011-02-13 Thread Will Coleda
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Richard Hainsworth wrote: > Before doing any more work on this benchmarking project, I was wondering if > any one else thinks the effort is worth it. Assuming that perl6 here == rakudo on parrot, I and others on the parrot dev team would definitely find these hel

Re: benchmarking against other languages

2011-02-13 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Sun, 2011-13-02 at 20:27 +0300, Richard Hainsworth wrote: > Before doing any more work on this benchmarking project, I was wondering > if any one else thinks the effort is worth it. Me. I hope to get started in a couple of weeks once my accounting is done. > > Although it is early days, it

Re: benchmarking against other languages

2011-02-14 Thread Richard Hainsworth
On 02/13/2011 11:16 PM, Guy Hulbert wrote: I am only interested in perl5, perl6 and C to start. I havent got the C or java languages to work yet. but re-organize the documentation a bit as I'm more interested in the framework than the specific results -- except for how perl6 compares wit

Re: benchmarking against other languages

2011-02-14 Thread Richard Hainsworth
Thanks for the encouragement. On 02/13/2011 11:02 PM, Will Coleda wrote: On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Richard Hainsworth wrote: Before doing any more work on this benchmarking project, I was wondering if any one else thinks the effort is worth it. Assuming that perl6 here == rakudo on p

Re: benchmarking against other languages

2011-02-14 Thread Guy Hulbert
Some comments on what I plan to do after my 2 week hibernation. On Sun, 2011-13-02 at 20:27 +0300, Richard Hainsworth wrote: > see http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/ for more info on the > algorithms. > > There are many factors that can be considered when benchmarking, > including IO and OS. >

Re: benchmarking against other languages

2011-02-14 Thread Guy Hulbert
Sorry, forgot. On Sun, 2011-13-02 at 20:27 +0300, Richard Hainsworth wrote: > It seemed to me it would be a good idea to fix on some "elegant" form of > the perl6 implementation. Yes!! In fact, it would be useful to provide at least TWO versions: a "standard" one and one that is optimised for

Re: benchmarking against other languages

2011-02-14 Thread Steffen Schwigon
Guy Hulbert writes: > I am interested first in developing a generic framework around the > work already done for 'the benchmark game' (TBG*). I will pretend > that I am starting from scratch and define a protocol for adding > algorithms and exchanging information. > > I have been convinced that e

Re: benchmarking against other languages

2011-02-14 Thread Richard Hainsworth
On 02/14/11 16:47, Guy Hulbert wrote: Some comments on what I plan to do after my 2 week hibernation. On Sun, 2011-13-02 at 20:27 +0300, Richard Hainsworth wrote: see http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/ for more info on the algorithms. There are many factors that can be considered when benchmar

Re: benchmarking against other languages

2011-02-14 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Mon, 2011-14-02 at 15:56 +0100, Steffen Schwigon wrote: > If on the other side, you already have some more experiences on this > topic I would love to hear comments and ideas to apply them to my > Perl5 benchmarking. Thanks Steffen. I will look at this when I get started in two weeks. If you

Re: benchmarking against other languages

2011-02-14 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Mon, 2011-14-02 at 18:16 +0300, Richard Hainsworth wrote: > On 02/14/11 16:47, Guy Hulbert wrote: > > Some comments on what I plan to do after my 2 week hibernation. [snip] > > I am interested first in developing a generic framework around the work > > already done for 'the benchmark game' (TBG*

Re: benchmarking against other languages

2011-02-14 Thread Guy Hulbert
Last one. On Mon, 2011-14-02 at 18:16 +0300, Richard Hainsworth wrote: > I am trying to get the c and cc working, as these require a compilation > step prior to running the program. When I tried C, I got a single error multiple times for two different programs. I think my version of gcc is jus