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- all benchmarks - binary-trees chameneos-redux fannkuch fasta k-nucleotide mandelbrot meteor-contest n-body pidigits regex-dna reverse-complement spectral-norm thread-ring - all languages - Ada 2005 GNAT ATS C GNU gcc C# Mono C++ GNU g++ Clean Erlang HiPE F# Mono Fortran Intel Go 6g 8g Haskell GHC Java 6 -server Java 6 -Xint Java 6 steady state JavaScript TraceMonkey JavaScript V8 Lisp SBCL Lua OCaml Pascal Free Pascal Perl PHP Python CPython Ruby JRuby Ruby MRI Scala Scheme PLT Smalltalk VisualWorks

÷ Ada 2005 GNAT ATS C GNU gcc C# Mono C++ GNU g++ Clean Erlang HiPE F# Mono Fortran Intel Go 6g 8g Haskell GHC Java 6 -server Java 6 -Xint Java 6 steady state JavaScript TraceMonkey JavaScript V8 Lisp SBCL Lua OCaml Pascal Free Pascal Perl PHP Python CPython Ruby JRuby Ruby MRI Scala Scheme PLT Smalltalk VisualWorks

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

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

Each chart bar shows, for one unidentified benchmark, how much the fastest Smalltalk VisualWorks program used compared to the fastest Java 6 -server program.

 Step 2 : Are the Smalltalk VisualWorks programs faster? Approximately.

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

Each table row shows, for one named benchmark, how much the fastest Smalltalk VisualWorks program used compared to the fastest Java 6 -server program.

Smalltalk VisualWorks used what fraction? used how many times more?
Benchmark	Time	Memory	Code	Reduced N
k-nucleotide	5×	4×	±	2,500,000
fasta	6×	2×	±
fannkuch	9×	±	±
pidigits	10×	2×	±
reverse-complement	11×	1/2	±
regex-dna	14×	1/2	1/2
binary-trees	14×	1/3	±
mandelbrot	14×	1/3	1/2
chameneos-redux	14×	1/2	±

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

 Step 3 : Are the Smalltalk VisualWorks programs faster? Measurements.

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

For each named benchmark, measurements of the fastest Smalltalk VisualWorks program are shown for comparison against measurements of the fastest Java 6 -server program.

Program Source Code	CPU secs	Elapsed secs	Memory KB	Code B	~ CPU Load
k-nucleotide N = 2,500,000 reduced workload
Smalltalk VisualWorks	31.93	31.93	335,296	1191	0% 1% 0% 100%
Java 6 -server	6.43	6.60	92,780	1602	0% 0% 0% 100%
fasta
Smalltalk VisualWorks	46.79	46.79	22,716	1171	0% 0% 0% 100%
Java 6 -server	8.33	8.36	14,580	1240	0% 0% 0% 100%
fannkuch
Smalltalk VisualWorks	678.27	678.22	22,796	772	0% 0% 0% 100%
Java 6 -server	72.68	72.68	17,460	1150	0% 0% 0% 100%
pidigits
Smalltalk VisualWorks	68.03	68.03	37,732	899	0% 0% 0% 100%
Java 6 -server	6.93	6.96	18,020	938	0% 0% 0% 100%
reverse-complement
Smalltalk VisualWorks	30.97	30.97	299,940	754	0% 0% 0% 100%
Java 6 -server	2.66	2.71	475,772	592	0% 1% 0% 97%
regex-dna
Smalltalk VisualWorks	349.49	349.48	299,348	584	0% 0% 0% 100%
Java 6 -server	25.35	25.40	683,724	929	0% 0% 0% 100%
binary-trees
Smalltalk VisualWorks	255.48	255.46	197,720	722	0% 0% 0% 100%
Java 6 -server	18.51	18.55	565,112	603	0% 0% 0% 100%
mandelbrot
Smalltalk VisualWorks	593.08	593.05	22,772	467	0% 0% 0% 100%
Java 6 -server	41.28	41.29	66,940	903	0% 0% 0% 100%
chameneos-redux
Smalltalk VisualWorks	56.27	56.27	22,856	2515	0% 0% 0% 100%
Java 6 -server	3.88	3.91	41,280	1756	0% 0% 0% 99%
n-body
Smalltalk VisualWorks	Failed
spectral-norm
Smalltalk VisualWorks	Failed

 Measurements for all the accepted programs

Ada 2005 GNAT ATS C GNU gcc C# Mono C++ GNU g++ Clean Erlang HiPE F# Mono Fortran Intel Go 6g 8g Haskell GHC Java 6 -server Java 6 -Xint Java 6 steady state JavaScript TraceMonkey JavaScript V8 Lisp SBCL Lua OCaml Pascal Free Pascal Perl PHP Python CPython Ruby JRuby Ruby MRI Scala Scheme PLT Smalltalk VisualWorks

 Smalltalk VisualWorks : uniform reflective environment - real live objects 

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

VisualWorks,Release 7.6 of March 3, 2008

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! !