Neil Hodgson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alex Martelli: > > > Can you run a generic benchmark "inside the current implementation of > > Flash" to check out its Javascript performance? I can't, so, ... > > I can't either (without going to a lot of effort) so here is a page > comparing SpiderMonkey and Tamarin from someone with an adobe.com address: > > http://www.playercore.com/pub/Tamarin/Avmplus_vs._javascript.htm > > The median improvement for Tamarin over SpiderMonkey is better than > 2:1 and for Tamarin with type declarations better than 4:1. There are > some tests with much more noticeable results but overall we're not > looking at C or Lisp compiler levels of performance even with type > declarations.
Thanks! Trusting those reports, it looks like CPython may well NOT be particularly (or, at all...?) slower than Javascript with Tamarin -- making the assertion that CPython is "unreasonably slower" than some Javascript implementation definitely unfounded, if so. Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
