performances.md

Performances

I tried to compare Swan with a few other programming languages. Globally I'm a bit faster than python 3.6, but slower than wren, and much slower than lua.

I took the scripts that have been used to measure wren's performance with a few minor changes. These scripts are in the benchmark directory.

Script/Language	Swan	Wren	Python 3.6	LuaJIT -joff	LuaJIT
method_call	0.904	0.503	3.622	0.833	0.030
binary_trees	0.777	0.543	0.770	0.224	0.216
Fib	0.778	0.563	1.591	0.234	0.049
for	0.480	0.465	0.998	0.094	0.083
map_numeric	0.736	0.759	0.705	0.450	0.200
map_string	0.208	0.216	0.169	0.104	0.077
string_equals	0.664	0.502	0.808	0.055	0.004