Learning exercise that quickly outgrew a simple gist.
The logic for finding the palindromes is simple and each program must return the same to stdout.
- Open
/usr/share/dict/words - Iterate over each word in the dictionary
- Remove the
\nafter each word - Lowercase the word
- Reverse the lowercased word
- Compare lowercased word and reverse
- If they match print
word + " is a palindrome"
- Remove the
I ran each program 10 times with time and picked the fastest result:
C 600.0.51: 0.03s user 0.00s system 96% cpu 0.032 total
Rust 0.13.0: 0.03s user 0.00s system 91% cpu 0.032 total
Golang 1.3.1: 0.06s user 0.00s system 98% cpu 0.063 total
Perl 5.18.2: 0.08s user 0.00s system 97% cpu 0.081 total
LuaJIT 2.0.3: 0.12s user 0.00s system 98% cpu 0.123 total
D 2.066.1: 0.14s user 0.00s system 98% cpu 0.143 total
Ruby 2.0.0: 0.15s user 0.01s system 99% cpu 0.154 total
Node 0.11.13: 0.18s user 0.03s system 101% cpu 0.201 total
Haskell 7.8.3: 0.20s user 0.01s system 99% cpu 0.211 total
PHP 5.5.14 0.22s user 0.01s system 99% cpu 0.231 total
Python 2.7.8: 0.18s user 0.06s system 95% cpu 0.244 total
Java 1.6.0: 0.35s user 0.04s system 154% cpu 0.253 total
Scala 2.11.2: 0.67s user 0.08s system 138% cpu 0.538 total
Bash 3.2.53: It's still running... :P
Here are the optimization options that I used:
gcc -O3 -o palindromes palindromes.c
rustc --opt-level=3 palindromes.rs
go build -o ./palindromes palindromes.go
dmd -O -inline -release -noboundscheck palindromes.d
luajit -O3 palindromes.lua
ghc -O palindromes.hs
javac -O palindromes.java
scalac -optimise palindromes.scala
I've included a Benchfile which you can use with benchmarker.
Note: You must compile the C, Go, Haskell, Java, Scala and Rust programs (if you have the compilers in your path, running make should do the trick) and have Node, Java, Scala, Ruby, Python, PHP and Perl in your path if you want to benchmark the programs yourself.
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