Re: [Vala] benchmarks on Vala?

[Jan Hudec <bulb ucw cz>]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 09:18:06 -0300, Erick Pérez Castellanos wrote:
> I haven't prove it but theoretically can't be slower since Mono
> applications are running on the top of a virtual machine and Vala
> applications are native code executed, so kinda hard to think that
> Mono is faster than Vala, eh !!!

Theoretically, that's not true.

Good just-in-timing run core can run virtual machine code at almost the same
speed as native code. And a good garbage-collector is faster than malloc/free
(it pays some cost for surviving object, but for many short-lived objects, it 
is a lot faster) and compacts the working set, which improves cache
performance. And these days, memory access cost as much as tens of
instructions, so cache performance can make huge difference.

Of course the cost of using garbage collector is bigger memory consumption,
because the objects are not recycled immediately.

-- 
                                                 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb ucw cz>