[Pharo-users] [Stupid Benchmarks] C++ vs Pharo

[Dimitris Chloupis]

So I was bored and decided to test how fast pharo is compared to C++.

so I tested addition

C++ version:

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
  double x=0;
  while(x<1000000000)
    {
    x = x+1;
    }

  return 1;
  }

 time ./test1
        2.84 real         2.84 user         0.00 sys

Pharo version:

time ./pharo Ephestos.image eval "|x| x := 0. 1 to: 1000000000 do:[:each| x
:= x +1]"
1
        2.09 real         1.94 user         0.08 sys

Pharo is +50% faster than C++ ... o_O ... that's suprising, I assume here
Pharo VM probably does some kind of optimisation.