Spry Performance

Tue, 24 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000

When writing Spry I am so far mainly ignoring performance. The general execution of Spry code will be a regular interpreter (although stackless I hope) and not a JIT. But that doesn’t prevent us from playing around and learning something!

In this article I do some silly experiments around interpreter startup time and fooling around with 40 million element arrays. As usual, I am fully aware that the languages (Pharo Smalltalk, NodeJS, Python) I compare with a) have lots of other ways to do things b) may not have been used exactly as someone else would have done it. A truck load of salt required. Now… let’s go!

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Spry Performance