Programming Languages Benchmark

A benchmark to evaluate the performances of different programming languages.

Important notes

• This benchmark has no scientific value
• The benchmark has to be launched on Mac x86 64bits machine to be able to compile the assembly code
• To run the javascript code, node has to be installed

Presentation

This benchmark launches the same code on different programming languages mesuring the execution time for each of them. It then displays the execution time for each programming language.

Current tests

The for loop test

The program lanches a for loop to count from 0 to 10^8 one by one

note: given the fact that the bash for loops and while loops are far too slow, the bash script counts using jot. Please, refer to the first important note.

How it works

First, the benchmark compile the codes that require compiling. Those who doesn't are just copied into the build folder. Then it launches one by one each script/executable.

Usage

The main script is benchmark.sh:

./benchmark.sh [options] [arguments]

The possible options are:

• -h or --help: Displays all the currently supported options
• -i or --info: Displays informations about the benchmark and the currently installed supported programming languages
• -r or --run: Run the benchmark. As argument, the programming languages to be tested can be given
• -rs or --run-short: Same as -r but only displays the results of the benchmark in a minimalistic way
• -t or --todo: Displays the onn work features still to be added
• -v or --version: Displays the current version number

The run arguments: If only some programming languages are to be tested, these can be specified as argument. For instance, you can run the following:

./benchmark.sh -r java c python js

note: the benchmark.sh file has to be executable to be ran. If it isn't, please lanch the following command:

chmod +x benchmark.sh