From: Pierre-Charles David <pcdavid@...>
Date: 2003-08-05T16:18:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Parrot SMOP benchmark

Harry Ohlsen <harryo@qiqsolutions.com> writes:

> I was just reading Dan Sugalski's slides from RubyConf 2002 and
> noticed the benchmarks relating to something called "SMOP" at the
> end of the article.
> 
> It has Ruby 1.6.6 being the slowest at 206s versus Perl 5.6.0 at
> 165s and Python 2.2 at 136s. Has anyone tried running it against
> 1.8.0 ... yes, I know it's only been out for a few hours :-). Might
> give us a feel for how well some of the performance improvements
> work in practice.
> 
> Does anyone know where to get the Ruby code for this SMOP thingy?

Here are the results on my machine (P4 @ 1.6 GHz, 512MB, Debian
unstable with kernel 2.4.21). Ruby 1.8.0 is freshly compiled using gcc
3.3.1 20030728 (Debian prerelease), the other interpreters are the
current Debian unstable versions:

ruby 1.6.8 (2003-07-09) [i386-linux]
Iterations:    10000000
Estimated ops: 20000000
Elapsed time:  10.052047
M op/s:        1.989644497

ruby 1.8.0 (2003-08-04) [i686-linux]
Iterations:    10000000
Estimated ops: 20000000
Elapsed time:  7.29644
M op/s:        2.74106276485519

perl 5.8.0 built for i386-linux-thread-multi
Iterations:    100000000
Estimated ops: 200000000
Elapsed time:  66
M op/s:        3.03030303030303

Python 2.2.3+ (#1, Jul  5 2003, 11:04:18)
Iterations:    10000000
Estimated ops: 20000000
Elapsed time:  6.38665604591
M op/s:        3.13152921595

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Pierre-Charles David (pcdavid <at> emn <dot> fr)
Computer Science PhD Student, �cole des Mines de Nantes, France
Homepage: http://pcdavid.net/