[BangPypers] PyPy outperforms C in microbenchmark

Noufal Ibrahim noufal at gmail.com
Wed Aug 3 09:52:46 CEST 2011


Anand Balachandran Pillai <abpillai at gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> PyPy outperforms C in a little benchmark capitalising on gcc's inability
>> to optimise across files.
>>
>>
>> http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2011/08/pypy-is-faster-than-c-again-string.html
>>
>
>  Not sure if that is the only factor playing here. I am pretty sure
>  the malloc/free every cycle is killing the C program.

[...]

Well, the original benchmark without dynamic allocation is slower that
the PyPy version too. Your point however is sound.

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