Compare the performance of Perl programs against some other language implementation.
For more information about the Perl implementation we measured see ↓ about Perl.
Perl comparison summary
| 1/2 1/3 1/4 … Perl is better | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Programs | Time | Memory Use | Source Size | Reduced N |
| chameneos-redux | ||||
| reverse-complement | 1/2 | ± | 1/3 | |
| k-nucleotide | 2 | 1/2 | 1/3 | |
| pidigits | 2 | 1/4 | 1/2 | |
| partial-sums | 2 | 1/3 | ± | |
| sum-file | 3 | 1/2 | 1/3 | |
| regex-dna | 3 | 1/2 | 1/2 | |
| nsieve | 15 | 12 | 1/2 | |
| nsieve-bits | 18 | 1/3 | 1/2 | |
| binary-trees | 30 | 2 | ± | |
| fasta | 43 | 1/3 | ± | |
| recursive | 46 | 1/5 | ± | 7 |
| n-body | 57 | 1/6 | ± | |
| mandelbrot | 58 | 1/3 | 1/2 | |
| fannkuch | 62 | 1/3 | 1/2 | |
| spectral-norm | 145 | ± | 1/2 | |
± look at the measurements
Perl comparison measurements
| Program & Logs | CPU secs | Memory KB | Size B | Elapsed secs | ~ CPU Load |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| reverse-complement | |||||
| Perl #2 | 1.99 | 38,356 | 298 | ||
| Java 6 -server | 3.64 | 46,700 | 863 | ||
| k-nucleotide | |||||
| Perl #2 | 27.54 | 42,836 | 359 | ||
| Java 6 -server | 15.75 | 66,540 | 1052 | ||
| pidigits | |||||
| Perl #2 | 6.21 | 3,144 | 385 | ||
| Java 6 -server #2 | 3.31 | 11,728 | 938 | ||
| partial-sums | |||||
| Perl #3 | 14.23 | 3,156 | 389 | ||
| Java 6 -server #2 | 6.85 | 9,460 | 470 | ||
| sum-file | |||||
| Perl | 15.55 | 14,916 | 84 | ||
| Java 6 -server #2 | 4.78 | 22,872 | 222 | ||
| regex-dna | |||||
| Perl #2 | 13.66 | 25,048 | 449 | ||
| Java 6 -server #2 | 4.06 | 52,248 | 711 | ||
| nsieve | |||||
| Perl #2 | 60.70 | 242,316 | 290 | ||
| Java 6 -server | 4.03 | 19,824 | 452 | ||
| nsieve-bits | |||||
| Perl | 93.55 | 4,024 | 253 | ||
| Java 6 -server #3 | 5.13 | 12,204 | 517 | ||
| binary-trees | |||||
| Perl | 224.06 | 37,588 | 481 | ||
| Java 6 -server #2 | 7.56 | 24,012 | 603 | ||
| fasta | |||||
| Perl #4 | 850.67 | 3,156 | 934 | ||
| Java 6 -server #2 | 19.96 | 10,096 | 1240 | ||
| recursive N = 7 reduced workload | |||||
| Perl #2 | 31.60 | 2,144 | 380 | ||
| Java 6 -server | 0.68 | 9,652 | 427 | ||
| n-body | |||||
| Perl | 1,567.73 | 1,904 | 1140 | ||
| Java 6 -server | 27.54 | 10,888 | 1430 | ||
| mandelbrot | |||||
| Perl #2 | 382.65 | 3,388 | 311 | ||
| Java 6 -server #3 | 6.62 | 9,984 | 623 | ||
| fannkuch | |||||
| Perl | 728.50 | 3,144 | 348 | ||
| Java 6 -server #2 | 11.79 | 9,888 | 761 | ||
| spectral-norm | |||||
| Perl #2 | 3,943.63 | 18,536 | 334 | ||
| Java 6 -server | 27.15 | 26,424 | 514 | ||
about Perl
This is perl, v5.8.8 built for i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi
Home Page: http://www.perl.org/
Download: http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/
