My newbie annoyances so far

[Alex Martelli]

Neil Hodgson <nyamatongwe+thunder at gmail.com> wrote:

> Alex Martelli:
> 
> > Can you run a generic benchmark "inside the current implementation of
> > Flash" to check out its Javascript performance?  I can't, so, ...
> 
>     I can't either (without going to a lot of effort) so here is a page
> comparing SpiderMonkey and Tamarin from someone with an adobe.com address:
> 
> http://www.playercore.com/pub/Tamarin/Avmplus_vs._javascript.htm
> 
>     The median improvement for Tamarin over SpiderMonkey is better than
> 2:1 and for Tamarin with type declarations better than 4:1.  There are
> some tests with much more noticeable results but overall we're not 
> looking at C or Lisp compiler levels of performance even with type 
> declarations.

Thanks!  Trusting those reports, it looks like CPython may well NOT be
particularly (or, at all...?) slower than Javascript with Tamarin --
making the assertion that CPython is "unreasonably slower" than some
Javascript implementation definitely unfounded, if so.


Alex