[BangPypers] PyPy outperforms C in microbenchmark

[Anand Balachandran Pillai]

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> PyPy outperforms C in a little benchmark capitalising on gcc's inability
> to optimise across files.
>
>
> http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2011/08/pypy-is-faster-than-c-again-string.html
>

 Not sure if that is the only factor playing here. I am pretty sure
 the malloc/free every cycle is killing the C program.


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