OUT-OF-DATE! Read http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/      

- all benchmarks - n-body fannkuch (deprecated) meteor-contest fasta spectral-norm reverse-complement mandelbrot k-nucleotide regex-dna pidigits chameneos-redux thread-ring binary-trees hello-world sum-file nsieve nsieve-bits partial-sums recursive - all languages - C Cyclone C GNU gcc C++ GNU g++ D Digital Mars D GNU Dylan Gwydion Eiffel SmartEiffel Forth bigForth Forth GNU GForth Icon Io Matlab GNU Octave Nice Oberon-2 OO2C Objective-C GNU Parrot PIR Pike Prolog SWI Rexx Regina S-Lang SML MLton SML SML/NJ Tcl

÷ C Cyclone C GNU gcc C++ GNU g++ D Digital Mars D GNU Dylan Gwydion Eiffel SmartEiffel Forth bigForth Forth GNU GForth Icon Io Matlab GNU Octave Nice Oberon-2 OO2C Objective-C GNU Parrot PIR Pike Prolog SWI Rexx Regina S-Lang SML MLton SML SML/NJ Tcl

 Step 1 : Are the programs faster? At a glance.

This chart shows 3 comparisons - Time-used, Memory-used and Code-used ~ speed and size.

Each chart bar shows, for one unidentified benchmark, how much the fastest program used compared to the fastest Tcl program.

Look at speed another way - look at a box plot of Time-used data.

 Step 2 : Are the programs faster? Approximately.

This table shows 3 comparisons - Time-used, Memory-used and Code-used ~ speed and size.

Each table row shows, for one named benchmark, how much the fastest program used compared to the fastest Tcl program.

used what fraction? used how many times more?
Benchmark	Time	Memory	Code

used what fraction? used how many times more?
Time-used	|-	|---	25%	median	75%	---|	-|
(CPU secs)

± read the measurements and then read the program source code.

 Step 3 : Are the programs faster? Measurements.

This table shows 5 measurements - CPU Time, Elapsed Time, Memory, Code and ≈ CPU Load ~ speed and size.

For each named benchmark, measurements of the fastest program are shown for comparison against measurements of the fastest Tcl program.

Program Source Code	CPU secs	Elapsed secs	Memory KB	Code B	≈ CPU Load
spectral-norm
	No program
Tcl	35.81		18,592	425
pidigits
	No program
Tcl	Failed
nsieve-bits
	No program
Tcl	67.44		5,904	424
fasta
	No program
Tcl	12.63		3,168	946
regex-dna
	No program
Tcl	0.75		6,300	373
binary-trees
	No program
Tcl	7.08		3,256	540
k-nucleotide
	No program
Tcl	2.45		8,316	561
partial-sums
	No program
Tcl	0.34		3,264	450
mandelbrot
	No program
Tcl	11.48		3,376	460
recursive
	No program
Tcl	4.90		2,156	461
n-body
	No program
Tcl	33.85		1,496	1454
reverse-complement
	No program
Tcl	0.40		2,168	343
nsieve
	No program
Tcl	14.59		11,620	295

 Step 4 : Are there other programs for these benchmarks?

Remember - those are just the fastest and Tcl programs measured on this OS/machine. Check if there are other implementations of these benchmark programs for .

C Cyclone C GNU gcc C++ GNU g++ D Digital Mars D GNU Dylan Gwydion Eiffel SmartEiffel Forth bigForth Forth GNU GForth Icon Io Matlab GNU Octave Nice Oberon-2 OO2C Objective-C GNU Parrot PIR Pike Prolog SWI Rexx Regina S-Lang SML MLton SML SML/NJ Tcl

Maybe one of those other programs is fastest on a different OS/machine.

 Step 5 : Are there other faster programs for these benchmarks?

Remember - those are just the fastest and Tcl programs measured on this OS/machine. Check if there are faster implementations of these benchmark programs for other programming languages.

n-body fannkuch (deprecated) meteor-contest fasta spectral-norm reverse-complement mandelbrot k-nucleotide regex-dna pidigits chameneos-redux thread-ring binary-trees hello-world sum-file nsieve nsieve-bits partial-sums recursive

Maybe one of those other programs is fastest on a different OS/machine.

  :  

Code size measurements are misleading for Smalltalk because source files are usually only used to archive or transfer code. Smalltalk code is created, stored and run in a Smalltalk image. We show Smalltalk source code in a verbose chunk file format used to archive or transfer source code between Smalltalk images.

"Design Principles Behind Smalltalk" by Daniel Ingalls

Home Page: Cincom Smalltalk™ VisualWorksl® Environment Data Sheet

Download: VisualWorksl® Non-Commercial

We've made the Smalltalk code a little more generic by abstracting out these implementation specific details:

Object subclass: #Tests
   instanceVariableNames: ''
   classVariableNames: ''
   poolDictionaries: ''
   category: 'Shootout'!


!Tests class methodsFor: 'platform'!
arg
   ^CEnvironment commandLine last asNumber! !

!Tests class methodsFor: 'platform'!
stdin
   ^Stdin! !


!Tests class methodsFor: 'platform'!
stdinSpecial
   ^ExternalReadStream on:
      (ExternalConnection ioAccessor: (UnixDiskFileAccessor new handle: 0))! !


!Tests class methodsFor: 'platform'!
stdout
   ^Stdout! !


!Tests class methodsFor: 'platform'!
stdoutSpecial
   ^ExternalWriteStream on:
      (ExternalConnection ioAccessor: (UnixDiskFileAccessor new handle: 1))! !


!Stream methodsFor: 'platform'!
nl
   self nextPut: Character lf! !


!Stream methodsFor: 'platform'!
print: number digits: decimalPlaces
   self nextPutAll:
      ((number asFixedPoint: decimalPlaces) printString copyWithout: $s)! !


!Stream methodsFor: 'platform'!
print: number paddedTo: width
   number printOn: self paddedWith: $  to: width base: 10! !


!Integer methodsFor: 'platform'!
asFloatD
   ^self asDouble! !

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