The Great Computer Language Shootout

[Thomas Lindgren]

--- Bengt Kleberg <bengt.kleberg@REDACTED> wrote:

> greetings,
> 
> i have written replacements/updated the erlang
> programs that did not 
> work in The Great Computer Language Shootout. as can
> be seen on the 
> erlang page
> http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/lang/erlang all my
> entries 
> (except one) are worse than the erlang average :-(
> 
> however, it might be of interest for someone to
> start making things 
> better now that everything works.

While the value of microbenchmarks can be questioned,
and a lot of the examples probably are not Erlang's
forte, I will fall for the temptation to make some
remarks:

- Erlang is often a factor 10-100 or worse(!) slower
than the best. A partial explanation: the test harness
starts a new VM for every benchmark. Still doesn't
explain it all. (Since runtime varies a bit :-)

- Ocaml, stalin and suchlike are often among the best.

- For some reason, Hipe is sometimes slower than
vanilla erlang. Due to loading native code at startup?

One factor is the source code, as Bengt notes. It
could perhaps be optimized further here and there.
Still, some of it seems straightforward enough.

Apart from that, on the cheerful side, it seems there
are still lots of tricks that an Erlang compiler could
use for speeding things up. At least on the micro
benchmark side :-)

Best,
Thomas



	
		
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