Re: [Vala] benchmarks on Vala?

["Andrés G. Aragoneses" <knocte gmail com>]

On 17/01/11 14:08, Jiří Zárevúcky wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 1:24 AM, Didip Kerabat<didipk gmail com>  wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm new to the language and the community.
>
> Welcome.
> If you haven't done so already, you can also join our IRC channel.
> It's a good place to discuss simpler questions about the basics of the language.
>
> > I'm wondering if anyone here have benchmarked Vala against Mono, for example.
> > In particular: performance of basic types and garbage collection.
>
> I don't know about any recent benchmarks, but I think Vala will
> generally be a bit slower than Mono, but more memory efficient.

Slower, really?

Would that be true as well for the dova profile?


> It is definitely way faster than Python or JavaScript. It's much
> easier and faster to write a program in it compared to C or C++.
>
> I, personally, see the greatest benefit in the fact Vala compiles to C
> compatible native binaries, so you can use any Vala library you write
> in virtually any other (practical) language.
>
> Hope that answers at least some of your questions :)