Aug. 31, 2019
12:36 p.m.
On 31 Aug 2019, at 13:27, Richard Kenneth Eng <horrido.hobbies@gmail.com> wrote:
https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/fastest/vw-pharo...
Is VisualWorks really faster than Pharo? Why???
The Pharo code is single threaded, single core, while the VW code uses something called MatriX.VirtualMachines to create workers that run on multiple cores. Presumably that makes a huge difference. Also, such parallelism is easy for benchmarks that can be split in independent tasks, real world code is a completely different story. Basically, this is not the same code that is being compared.