[erlang-questions] clueless performance question

Hynek Vychodil vychodil.hynek@REDACTED
Wed Jun 11 17:10:49 CEST 2008


On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Thomas Lindgren <thomasl_erlang@REDACTED>
wrote:

> (Just to check, Mats is writing about the WF1 results
> and Hynek about WF2, right?)


Yes, I wrote about WF2 and Mats about WF1. I was attended to WF1 but for WF2
I'm so busy, but may be :-)

>
>
> Best,
> Thomas
>
> --- Hynek Vychodil <hynek@REDACTED> wrote:
>
> > if you look at
> > http://wikis.sun.com/display/WideFinder/Results,
> > there is
> > OCaml version with 00:08:12 elapsed time
> > and using regexp instead Boyer-Moore. This is far
> > far away what erlang can
> > do except with specialized mmap ad hoc linked in
> > driver I guess.
> > If OCaml version upgraded to Boyer-Moore prefix
> > match I guess it can be
> > better but not so much because this task is strong
> > I/O bound.
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Mats Cronqvist
> > <mats.cronqvist@REDACTED>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Thomas Lindgren wrote:
> > > >
> > > > ...I thought the "wide finder" work of
> > > > last fall was pretty interesting. (Likewise for
> > the
> > > > WF2 getting started now.)
> > > >
> > > >
> > >   i tuned out of that discussion, but i was under
> > the impression that
> > > erlang pretty much... sucked.
> > >  so it was interesting to see Jeff Atwood's
> > summary(*);
> > >
> > >           Slowest      Fastest
> > > Perl <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl>
> > 44.29         1.51
> > > Erlang
> > >
> >
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_%28programming_language%29>
> > > 37.58         3.54
> > > Python
> > >
> >
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_%28programming_language%29>
> > > 41.04         4.38
> > > OCaml <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocaml>
> > 49.69        14.64
> > > Ruby
> >
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_programming_language>
> > > 1:43.71        50.16
> > >
> > >  mats
> > >
> > > (*)
> >
> http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001131.html
> > >
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> > --
> > --Hynek (Pichi) Vychodil
> >
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