This is true. On the other hand JVM languages are also faster than Perl and on some benchmarks able to beat object object code.
-- David On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 12:42 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > From what I can see GO is purely compiled down to object code and linked > into static binaries. IMHO Perl, as an interpreted language, is doing > *super* to be *only* twice the runtime of Go! Maybe others have a better > handle on this. > > On March 8, 2014 3:26:31 PM EST, Gyepi SAM <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 02:12:50PM -0500, David Larochelle wrote: >> >>> On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Gyepi SAM <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> For fun, I wrote a version in Go and it's twice as fast as the perl >>>> version. I imagine a C version would be faster yet, but I get paid for >>>> that >>>> kind of fun. I'd be happy to send you the Go version if you're interested. >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> I'm curious how you account for disk caches when your bench marking. I >>> fully expect that the CPU version of the code will be faster in GO than >>> Perl. But I wonder how much this matters if the file isn't already in the >>> disk cache. >>> >>> An interesting test would be to run the GO version first on a file that's >>> you can be sure is not in the disk cache, then to run the Perl version on >>> that file. I.e. let Perl benefit from the disk cache and see if GO is still >>> faster. >>> >> >> I have an SSD drive on my linux laptop so disk caching plays less of a role >> in >> my tests. I clear the cache with: >> >> echo 3 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches >> >> I repeated the tests after clearing the disk cache each time and also ran >> each >> test multiple times without clearing cache. The cached versions are a few >> seconds faster, but the overall results are the same; the Go version is >> about twice as fast. >> >> -Gyepi >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Boston-pm mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm >> >> _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
