On 5 feb, 14:31, dmitrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > the urlhttp://torquedev.blogspot.com/2008/02/changes-in-air.html > (blog of a game developers) > says IronPython is faster than CPython in 1.6 times. > Is it really true? > If yes, what are IronPython drawbacks vs CPython? > And is it possible to use IronPython in Linux? > > D.
I posted a little benchmark some time ago in ironpython's list that showed a big performance gap between both implementations (being cpython much faster than ironpython). Jim Hugunin replied showing that making the script more abstract (encapsulating code as much as possible into functions) the .NET framework makes a better job at optimizing everything. So I took Istvan script and made a little modification as follows: import time def foo(a): return a * a def do(): start = time.time() data = {} for i in xrange( 10**6 ): data[i] = foo(i) print 'Elapsed time:%5.2f s' % ( time.time() - start) do() # pre-run to avoid initialization time do() import psyco psyco.full() print '\nNow with psyco...\n' do() do() input() The result is that it runs slighty faster in both, IP and CP, but cpython is still faster (around 2x) than ironpython. However, when using psyco simply blows everything out of the water... These are my results. Ironpython 2.0 Alpha 8: Elapsed time: 3.14 s Elapsed time: 3.36 s cpyhon 2.5: Elapsed time: 1.55 s Elapsed time: 1.58 s Now with psyco... Elapsed time: 0.88 s Elapsed time: 0.80 s -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list