[Melbourne-pm] Still performing well..
Toby Corkindale
toby.corkindale at strategicdata.com.au
Mon May 17 20:49:23 PDT 2010
After the last Perlmongers meeting I was curious to benchmark Perl vs Go
vs Scala in more than just a trivial case.
I setup a test to read in a large CSV file, performing some minor
numeric and text manipulation upon each row, and outputing the results.
I timed the results within the apps, so as to avoid the start-up time,
and will report both below.
Language : Process time : Total time
Perl 5.10 : 1089 ms : 1153 ms
Go : 1682 ms : 1687 ms
Scala 2.8 : 2729 ms : 3114 ms
Note that Perl (using Text::CSV) came out ahead of the natively-compiled
Go (using a third-party CSV library)! That surprised me!
I was also surprised at how slow Scala was, especially since I was lazy
and just used String.split(",") rather than a proper CSV library, which
should be faster.
On the other hand - my test was clearly biassed towards Perl's
text-processing strengths, and avoided known weaknesses like object
creation.
It would be interesting to create another test that performed real-time
multi-threaded stream analysis of XML data instead.
I should also note that Scala and Perl produced identical output,
whereas Go's output had slight variances in a few of the floating point
results. (I think it was their printf performing different rounding.)
-Toby
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