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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 Tcl 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 Tcl 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 Tcl 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 Tcl program used compared to the fastest Zonnon Mono program.

Tcl used what fraction? used how many times more?
Benchmark	Time	Memory	Code
nsieve	15×	2×	±
n-body	135×	1/3	±

Tcl used what fraction? used how many times more?
Time-used	|-	|---	25%	median	75%	---|	-|
(CPU secs)	15×	15×	15×	75×	135×	135×	135×

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

 Step 3 : Are the Tcl 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 Tcl 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
Tcl	34.52		22,020	295
Zonnon Mono	2.32		9,744	368
n-body
Tcl	4,667.07		1,960	1454
Zonnon Mono	34.61		5,168	1524
k-nucleotide
Tcl	1.96		10,820	561
	No program
mandelbrot
Tcl	1.01		3,080	460
	No program
partial-sums
Tcl	0.39		1,904	450
Zonnon Mono	Failed
recursive
Tcl	5.54		2,000	461
Zonnon Mono	Failed
fasta
Tcl	26.12		2,416	912
	No program
reverse-complement
Tcl	0.14		2,844	381
	No program
pidigits
Tcl	0.49		2,868	612
	No program
regex-dna
Tcl	0.69		6,668	373
	No program
binary-trees
Tcl	7.54		3,688	540
	No program
spectral-norm
Tcl	46.28		2,844	425
	No program
nsieve-bits
Tcl	83.49		6,300	424
	No program

 Step 4 : Are there other Tcl programs for these benchmarks?

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

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 Tcl programs is fastest on a different OS/machine.

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

Remember - those are just the fastest Tcl 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.

 Tcl : everything is a string - programmable programming 

Tcl 8.5b2 (Oct 26, 2007)

Home Page: http://tcl.tk/

Download: http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/

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