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From: jamiller@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Jim Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel
Subject: Re: Benchmark article - Eiffel vs. C++ vs. Smalltalk-80
Message-ID: <-289289996@hpcupt1.HP.COM>
Date: 26 Mar 90 20:37:46 GMT
References: <274@eiffel.UUCP>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>               Figure 1:  Mosaic Benchmark Results
>
>Host Language[2]  Compiler[3]  Execution Time (secs)[4]  Executable Size[5]
>[1]                            User  System    Wall      Text    Data    BSS
>---- -----------  -----------  ----  ------    ----      -----   ----    -----
>Tek    Smalltalk  Tek ST-80                    3600
>Tek    Eiffel     Greenhills   69.2    1.0       70      40960   11264   36004
>Tek    C++        CC1.2/GH     55.3    1.7       57      15360    5120   34508
>Tek    C++        CC1.2/gcc    54.2    1.3       56      15360    5120   34498
>Tek    C++        g++          52.9    1.3       54      20480    8192   32056
>Tek    Eiffel     gcc          49.9    1.4       51      39936   11264   35616
>
>Sun    Eiffel     Sun          54.7    1.0       56      65535    8192    3872
>Sun    C++        CC2.0/gcc    41.3    1.2       42      32768    8192       0
>Sun    C++        g++          40.6    0.9       41      40960    8192       0
>Sun    Eiffel     gcc          40.4    1.1       41      65535    8192     536
>Sun    C++        CC2.0/cc     39.9    1.3       41      40960    8192       0
 
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>Note that Eiffel is just as fast as C++ on the Sun and faster than C++
>on the Tektronix workstation.  This seems ironic since C++ is touted as
>being efficient and the mosaic program exercises features which should
>be efficiently implemented in C.

Wait A minute.  Eiffel is faster AND slower.  It's just about the BEST and
the WORST on both machines.

It is very interesting data, thanks.
  
     jim miller