I tried to compare two tests with Smalltalk/X too:
- Mandelbrot (arithmetically intensive task)
CogVM is 1.14 times slower than Smalltalk/X
- Binary-trees
Smalltalk/X is 1.4 times slower than CogVM
It seems that this Smalltalk implementations are quite comparable...
-- Pavel
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 11:43 PM, Pavel Krivanek
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried a few benchmarks from Computer Language Benchmark Game
> (http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/which-programming-languages-are-fastest.php)
> on CogVM to compare it with VisualWorks and with the rest of the
> world.
>
> Of course this benchmarks are not ideal (like all benchmarks) but the
> result is that CogVM is in average 1.8 times slower than VisualWorks
> 7.8 NC. For the most successful benchmark (binary-trees) it was 13.5
> times slower than C (gcc) but in general we may except CogVM to be
> 20-30 times slower than C for this kind of tasks.
>
> Thank you for the great work!
>
> Cheers,
> -- Pavel
