JavaScript SpiderMonkey ÷ Perl | Gentoo : Intel® Pentium® 4 Computer Language Benchmarks Game

Compare the performance of JavaScript SpiderMonkey programs against some other language implementation.

For more information about the JavaScript implementation we measured see ↓ about JavaScript SpiderMonkey.

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JavaScript SpiderMonkey comparison summary

¹/₂ ¹/₃ ¹/₄ … JavaScript SpiderMonkey is better
Programs	Time	Memory Use	Source Size	Reduced N
chameneos-redux	No program
pidigits	No program
mandelbrot	Failed
recursive	¹/₂	¹/₂	±	3
binary-trees	¹/₂	3	±
spectral-norm	±	27	±
regex-dna	±	8	±
fasta	2	76	±
n-body	2	34	±
nsieve-bits	2	23	±
fannkuch	2	¹/₂	±
nsieve	2	2	±
partial-sums	3	45	±
k-nucleotide	4	4	±
sum-file	6	14	±
reverse-complement	37	5	±

± look at the measurements

Program & Logs	CPU secs	Memory KB	Size B
recursive N = 3 reduced workload
JavaScript SpiderMonkey	2.38	868	306
Perl #2	5.06	1,544	380
binary-trees
JavaScript SpiderMonkey	150.07	136,832	467
Perl #2	239.36	47,936	541
spectral-norm
JavaScript SpiderMonkey	5,335.02	66,808	311
Perl #2	4,089.08	2,468	334
regex-dna
JavaScript SpiderMonkey	17.16	180,280	365
Perl #4	11.81	21,408	431
fasta
JavaScript SpiderMonkey	1,799.67	142,532	791
Perl #4	950.04	1,872	934
n-body
JavaScript SpiderMonkey	3,447.99	66,452	1287
Perl	1,697.59	1,936	1140
nsieve-bits
JavaScript SpiderMonkey	203.93	90,712	322
Perl	100.18	4,004	253
fannkuch
JavaScript SpiderMonkey	2,030.97	876	482
Perl	855.72	1,492	348
nsieve
JavaScript SpiderMonkey	61.85	194,372	340
Perl #2	25.45	121,904	290
partial-sums
JavaScript SpiderMonkey #2	58.56	66,480	380
Perl #3	17.41	1,476	389
k-nucleotide
JavaScript SpiderMonkey	125.44	191,116	423
Perl #2	32.07	42,816	359
sum-file
JavaScript SpiderMonkey	114.27	20,360	74
Perl	18.17	1,468	84
reverse-complement
JavaScript SpiderMonkey	73.29	200,980	305
Perl #2	1.99	38,360	298

"SpiderMonkey", Software 2.0 2/2005, 320KB pdf

ECMAScript standard "ECMA-262 Edition 3" 1.2MB pdf

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