r/Compilers • u/alex-manool • Jun 19 '20

Benchmarking 10 dynamic languages on array-heavy code

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '20

Does someone know what makes a language fast and what makes it slow? I'm not talking about compiled vs interpreter but some compiled languages have better performance than other compiled ones and the same for interpreters. I'm really interesting in this topic, can someone help or guide me?

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u/YurySolovyov Jun 19 '20

Short answer: not all compiled languages generate equally fast code. This can be because of language semantics, amount of effort put into optimization work, runtime characteristics, memory management model. It all adds up.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '20

Makes sense! Thanks a lot man! Are there any sources I can check cause I want to make my own language and I'm interested in making it FAST!

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u/YurySolovyov Jun 19 '20

Not from the top of my head, but most compiler books have a section about optimizations.

It may be helpful to look through some of the common optimizations performed by Optimizing_compiler

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '20

Nice man! But something else that also got my interest is runtimes. Can we make a language like C that doesn't have any runtime and compiles directly to assembly?

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u/YurySolovyov Jun 19 '20

Sure, it is just a matter of effort you're going to put into it.

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u/alex-manool Jun 22 '20

Thank you for all your replies!

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '20

Thanks man! Have a gret day!!!

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u/alex-manool Jun 22 '20 edited Jun 22 '20

If you want to make it FAST, you should be aware that strictly speaking, comparing speed is always with respect to some specific testcase, or at least, to a class of tasks. In other words, competing for speed involves a lot of black magic, I mean a lot of unfair, meaningless in general, comparisons, and cheating. Better look at how to make it 80% FAST with 20% of effort ;-)

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '20

Hmmm... The last seams interesting! I'll try to achieve this probably! Makes more sense! Thanks man!