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 | ||||
| pidigits | 2 | 1/8 | 1/5 | |
| regex-dna | 3 | ± | 1/3 | |
| reverse-complement | 13 | ± | 1/2 | |
| k-nucleotide | 17 | ± | 1/4 | |
| fasta | 46 | 1/6 | ± | |
| binary-trees | 69 | 2 | ± | |
| n-body | 77 | 1/6 | ± | |
| mandelbrot | 122 | 6 | 1/2 | |
| fannkuch | 238 | 1/8 | 1/3 | |
| spectral-norm | 354 | 1/4 | 1/3 | |
± look at the measurements
Perl comparison measurements
| Program & Logs | CPU secs | Memory KB | Size B | Elapsed secs | ~ CPU Load |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pidigits | |||||
| Perl #2 | 8.08 | 3,304 | 385 | 8.08 | 100% 0% 0% 0% |
| Java 6 -server #4 | 13.85 | 28,048 | 1816 | 5.36 | 57% 61% 53% 62% |
| regex-dna | |||||
| Perl #4 | 46.45 | 562,056 | 440 | 46.45 | 0% 100% 0% 0% |
| Java 6 -server #2 | 45.39 | 563,420 | 1534 | 16.01 | 79% 67% 78% 58% |
| reverse-complement | |||||
| Perl #2 | 38.22 | 422,912 | 298 | 38.22 | 0% 99% 0% 0% |
| Java 6 -server #4 | 2.97 | 473,328 | 592 | 2.99 | 36% 57% 0% 7% |
| k-nucleotide | |||||
| Perl #2 | 246.72 | 709,252 | 359 | 249.79 | 1% 1% 98% 0% |
| Java 6 -server #2 | 49.08 | 761,096 | 1602 | 14.53 | 81% 80% 97% 80% |
| fasta | |||||
| Perl #4 | 347.13 | 2,128 | 934 | 347.13 | 0% 100% 0% 0% |
| Java 6 -server #2 | 7.52 | 12,672 | 1240 | 7.51 | 98% 0% 0% 2% |
| binary-trees | |||||
| Perl #2 | 1,343.31 | 643,504 | 541 | 1,343.26 | 100% 0% 0% 0% |
| Java 6 -server #2 | 30.80 | 289,724 | 603 | 19.57 | 77% 26% 24% 30% |
| n-body | |||||
| Perl | 1,930.06 | 2,140 | 1140 | 1,929.94 | 0% 100% 0% 0% |
| Java 6 -server #2 | 25.23 | 12,440 | 1424 | 25.21 | 0% 0% 0% 100% |
| mandelbrot | |||||
| Perl | 5,489.72 | 300,160 | 550 | 1,432.43 | 96% 95% 96% 95% |
| Java 6 -server #3 | 46.36 | 48,948 | 903 | 11.72 | 99% 99% 99% 99% |
| fannkuch | |||||
| Perl | 4,358.00 | 1,668 | 348 | 4,357.75 | 0% 0% 100% 0% |
| Java 6 -server | 66.10 | 13,768 | 1150 | 18.34 | 80% 75% 99% 99% |
| spectral-norm | |||||
| Perl | 1,446.02 | 2,796 | 355 | 1,445.94 | 87% 0% 13% 0% |
| Java 6 -server #2 | 15.94 | 12,576 | 950 | 4.09 | 97% 97% 99% 97% |
about Perl
This is perl, v5.10.0 built for i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi
Home Page: http://www.perl.org/
Download: http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/
