Re: [Pharo-dev] pharo vs. java

[Stephan Eggermont]

I tried it myself, java seems to be 7 times faster on a 35 MB 
jfreechart.mse file I found on github. Moose 5.1 managed about
30 MB/s.

UTF8 is rather suboptimal for source code. Nearly all of it is
ASCII which can be processed a machine word at a time, instead of byte. 
There were earlier discussions about that
http://forum.world.st/Fastest-utf-8-encoder-contest-td4634566.html
Stephan