simple benchmark of a few languages
Running on a small VM with 4 virtual cpu's:
Linux c7a 3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Jun 30 12:09:22 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
| Lang | elapsed time | user | system | result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Go | 0m5.585s | 0m5.586s | 0m0.006s | z=17320.507989086233 |
| C 1 thread | 0m0.884s | 0m0.883s | 0m0.001s | |
| C 2 threads | 0m0.423s | 0m0.843s | 0m0.001s | |
| C 4 threads | 0m0.318s | 0m1.060s | 0m0.001s | |
| C 8 threads | 0m0.268s | 0m1.027s | 0m0.003s | |
| C 16 threads | 0m0.261s | 0m1.032s | 0m0.002s | |
| C 32 threads | 0m0.224s | 0m0.886s | 0m0.002s | |
| C 64 threads | 0m0.218s | 0m0.864s | 0m0.002s | |
| C 128 threads | 0m0.221s | 0m0.864s | 0m0.006s | |
| C 256 threads | 0m0.222s | 0m0.864s | 0m0.009s | |
| C 512 threads | 0m0.224s | 0m0.865s | 0m0.014s | |
| C 1000 threads | 0m0.280s | 0m1.043s | 0m0.023s | |
| C -O3 -march native | 0m0.577s | 0m0.577s | 0m0.000s | z=17320.507989 |
| C -O0 | 0m1.846s | 0m1.845s | 0m0.002s | z=17320.507989 |
| Java | 0m4.937s | 0m4.908s | 0m0.040s | 17320.507989086233 |
| fastperl run 1 | 0m1.309s | 0m1.211s | 0m0.101s | z=17320.507989 |
| fastperl run 2 | 0m0.605s | 0m0.601s | 0m0.004s | z=17320.507989 |
| perl | 0m19.358s | 0m19.356s | 0m0.000s | z=17320.5079890862 |
| php | 0m22.773s | 0m22.725s | 0m0.004s | z= 17320.507989086 |
| python | 0m44.326s | 0m44.317s | 0m0.002s | 17320.5079891 |
| ruby | 1m20.563s | 1m20.547s | 0m0.010s | z = 17320.508075688773 |
| bash(1) | 0m12.053s | 0m2.557s | 0m12.080s | z=173.20508075688772935274 |
(1) bash only ran 10,000 iterations instead of 100,000,000, so muliply time taken * 10,000... 35 second -> 350,000 seconds -> 97 hours