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- 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 - BASIC FreeBASIC C GNU gcc C++ GNU g++ CAL Clean D Digital Mars Eiffel SmartEiffel Forth bigForth Forth GNU GForth Groovy Icon Io Lisaac Mercury Nice Oberon-2 OO2C Pike Prolog SWI Prolog YAP Rebol SML MLton SML SML/NJ Tcl Zonnon Mono

÷ BASIC FreeBASIC C GNU gcc C++ GNU g++ CAL Clean D Digital Mars Eiffel SmartEiffel Forth bigForth Forth GNU GForth Groovy Icon Io Lisaac Mercury Nice Oberon-2 OO2C Pike Prolog SWI Prolog YAP Rebol SML MLton SML SML/NJ Tcl Zonnon Mono

 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 Zonnon Mono 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 Zonnon Mono program.

used what fraction? used how many times more?
Benchmark	Time	Memory	Code
nsieve	5×	10×	±
n-body	17×	1/6	±

used what fraction? used how many times more?
Time-used	|-	|---	25%	median	75%	---|	-|
(CPU secs)	5×	5×	5×	11×	17×	17×	17×

± 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 Zonnon Mono program.

Program Source Code	CPU secs	Elapsed secs	Memory KB	Code B	≈ CPU Load
nsieve
	10.93		99,276	258
Zonnon Mono	2.32		9,744	368
n-body
	586.85		872	1265
Zonnon Mono	34.61		5,168	1524
fasta
	2.07		908	993
	No program
k-nucleotide
	0.70		8,284	613
	No program
pidigits
	0.59		5,324	684
	No program
mandelbrot
	0.13		864	367
	No program
partial-sums
	0.09		848	437
Zonnon Mono	Failed
reverse-complement
	0.17		1,464	538
	No program
recursive
	0.70		860	330
Zonnon Mono	Failed
spectral-norm
	6.33		828	328
	No program
nsieve-bits
	23.63		2,512	426
	No program
regex-dna
	No programs
binary-trees
	No programs

 Step 4 : Are there other programs for these benchmarks?

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

BASIC FreeBASIC C GNU gcc C++ GNU g++ CAL Clean D Digital Mars Eiffel SmartEiffel Forth bigForth Forth GNU GForth Groovy Icon Io Lisaac Mercury Nice Oberon-2 OO2C Pike Prolog SWI Prolog YAP Rebol SML MLton SML SML/NJ Tcl Zonnon Mono

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 Zonnon Mono 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.

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