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- all benchmarks - n-body fannkuch-redux meteor-contest fasta fasta-redux spectral-norm reverse-complement mandelbrot k-nucleotide regex-dna pidigits chameneos-redux thread-ring binary-trees - all languages - Ada 2005 GNAT ATS C GNU gcc Clojure C# Mono C++ GNU g++ Erlang Erlang HiPE F# Mono Fortran Intel Go Haskell GHC Java 7 -server Lisp SBCL OCaml Pascal Free Pascal Perl PHP Python 3 Racket Ruby 1.9 Ruby JRuby Scala

÷ Ada 2005 GNAT ATS C GNU gcc Clojure C# Mono C++ GNU g++ Erlang Erlang HiPE F# Mono Fortran Intel Go Haskell GHC Java 7 -server Lisp SBCL OCaml Pascal Free Pascal Perl PHP Python 3 Racket Ruby 1.9 Ruby JRuby Scala

 Step 1 : Are the Perl 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 Perl program used compared to the fastest Java 7 -server program.

Look at speed another way - look at a box plot of Time-used data.

 Step 2 : Are the Perl 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 Perl program used compared to the fastest Java 7 -server program.

Perl used what fraction? used how many times more?
Benchmark	Time	Memory	Code
regex-dna	2×	1/5	1/3
reverse-complement	2×	±	1/6
k-nucleotide	9×	4×	1/4
fasta	55×	1/8	1/2
spectral-norm	57×	1/2	±
n-body	63×	1/7	±
binary-trees	71×	±	1/2
mandelbrot	112×	2×	±
fannkuch-redux	208×	1/10	1/3

Perl used what fraction? used how many times more?
Time-used	|-	|---	25%	median	75%	---|	-|
(Elapsed secs)	2×	2×	9×	57×	71×	163×	208×

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

 Step 3 : Are the Perl 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 Perl program are shown for comparison against measurements of the fastest Java 7 -server program.

Program Source Code	CPU secs	Elapsed secs	Memory KB	Code B	≈ CPU Load
regex-dna
Perl	31.08	10.40	139,676	527	69% 71% 71% 90%
Java 7 -server	23.36	6.63	636,924	1410	92% 87% 88% 86%
reverse-complement
Perl	2.88	2.89	374,612	284	0% 0% 0% 100%
Java 7 -server	2.74	1.31	298,220	1661	45% 54% 37% 79%
k-nucleotide
Perl	250.41	75.64	1,921,476	648	80% 82% 83% 90%
Java 7 -server	29.23	8.03	463,516	2431	90% 98% 89% 89%
fasta
Perl	281.22	281.35	2,356	934	0% 0% 1% 100%
Java 7 -server	5.22	5.14	18,176	1507	0% 100% 1% 1%
spectral-norm
Perl	1,011.88	254.15	9,672	846	100% 100% 100% 100%
Java 7 -server	17.62	4.50	17,716	950	98% 99% 98% 98%
n-body
Perl	1,418.35	1,418.84	2,356	1140	0% 0% 100% 0%
Java 7 -server	22.52	22.50	16,920	1424	0% 100% 0% 0%
binary-trees
Perl	666.30	666.87	480,460	448	0% 0% 0% 100%
Java 7 -server	22.86	9.41	516,144	1007	83% 41% 64% 57%
mandelbrot
Perl	2,711.31	681.93	150,300	592	100% 99% 100% 99%
Java 7 -server	23.97	6.10	69,360	796	98% 99% 98% 98%
fannkuch-redux
Perl	2,802.73	2,803.75	1,832	457	88% 12% 0% 0%
Java 7 -server	53.19	13.47	17,416	1282	98% 100% 98% 100%
pidigits
Perl	Failed
Java 7 -server	1.58	0.54	33,628	1826	69% 79% 75% 81%
fasta-redux
	No program
Java 7 -server	0.13	0.11	?	1443	0% 92% 9% 11%

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

Remember - those are just the fastest Perl and Java 7 -server programs measured on this OS/machine. Check if there are other implementations of these benchmark programs for Perl.

Ada 2005 GNAT ATS C GNU gcc Clojure C# Mono C++ GNU g++ Erlang Erlang HiPE F# Mono Fortran Intel Go Haskell GHC Java 7 -server Lisp SBCL OCaml Pascal Free Pascal Perl PHP Python 3 Racket Ruby 1.9 Ruby JRuby Scala

Maybe one of those other Perl programs is fastest on a different OS/machine.

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

Remember - those are just the fastest Perl and Java 7 -server programs measured on this OS/machine. Check if there are faster implementations of these benchmark programs for other programming languages.

n-body fannkuch-redux meteor-contest fasta fasta-redux spectral-norm reverse-complement mandelbrot k-nucleotide regex-dna pidigits chameneos-redux thread-ring binary-trees

Maybe one of those other programs is fastest on a different OS/machine.

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