[Wellington-pm] Parrot "Faster than C"

[Sam Vilain]

It was briefly mentioned last night that there is a benchmark for which
the parrot implementation outperforms the C implementation.

Here is the original post from Leo:

http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.internals/32924

This is apparently the "ackermann benchmark"

In Python:

http://svn.perl.org/parrot/trunk/examples/shootout/ack.py

This followup clarifies it a little:

http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.internals/32958

The "unoptimised version" of the PIR that he refers to in the e-mail is at:

http://svn.perl.org/parrot/trunk/examples/shootout/ack.pir

Sam.