ANN: Dogelog Runtime, Prolog to the Moon (2021)

[Terry Reedy]

On 9/13/2021 8:46 AM, Mostowski Collapse wrote:
> The Standard Python version of Dogelog runtime
> is annoyingly slow. So we gave it a try with
> andother Python, and it was 6x times faster.
> 
> We could test GraalVM. We worked around the missing
> match in Python 3.8 by replacing it with if-then-else.
> Performance is a little better, we find:
> 
> /* Standard Python Version, Warm Run */
> ?- time(fibo(23,X)).
> % Wall 3865 ms, gc 94 ms, 71991 lips
> X = 46368.
> 
> /* GraalVM Python Version, Warm Warm Run */
> ?- time(fibo(23,X)).
> % Wall 695 ms, gc 14 ms, 400356 lips
> X = 46368.
> 
> See also:
> 
> JDK 1.8 GraalVM Python is 6x faster than Standard Python
> https://twitter.com/dogelogch/status/1437395917167112193
> 
> JDK 1.8 GraalVM Python is 6x faster than Standard Python
> https://www.facebook.com/groups/dogelog

You need to test more than fibonacci to make that claim.  There is a 
benchmark test that times around 40 different similarly small benchmarks.


-- 
Terry Jan Reedy