[Pharo-users] [Stupid Benchmarks] C++ vs Pharo

So I was bored and decided to test how fast pharo is compared to C++. so I tested addition C++ version: #include <stdio.h> int main() { double x=0; while(x<1000000000) { x = x+1; } return 1; } time ./test1 2.84 real 2.84 user 0.00 sys Pharo version: time ./pharo Ephestos.image eval "|x| x := 0. 1 to: 1000000000 do:[:each| x := x +1]" 1 2.09 real 1.94 user 0.08 sys Pharo is +50% faster than C++ ... o_O ... that's suprising, I assume here Pharo VM probably does some kind of optimisation.