Performance Quiz #6 -- Looking at the sixth cut

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Just because I don't write about .NET doesn't mean that I don't like it

The Old New Thing — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 17:00:26 GMT

I'm just not an expert.

re: Performance Quiz #6 -- Looking at the sixth cut

Ross — Sun, 12 Jun 2005 18:50:57 GMT

Oops, just discovered the next blog entry :)

re: Performance Quiz #6 -- Looking at the sixth cut

Ross — Sun, 12 Jun 2005 18:42:43 GMT

That is kind of interesting.

Do you have figures on the difference in memory usage?

re: Performance Quiz #6 -- Looking at the sixth cut

ricom — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 08:56:45 GMT

No, they each do the job in about 30ms. The CLR has 30ms more startup overhead basically.

Check out the space analysis for the reasons why.

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Keith J. Farmer — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 01:18:27 GMT

So -- excluding startup time -- what's the performance comparison like?

It seems to me that (total - startup) ~ 0.03s, about half of the total time for v6. If startup for v6 is ~0.00s, then the actual working bits still seem twice as fast in the CLR.

.NET Efficiency

Alan's Corner — Tue, 31 May 2005 16:26:15 GMT

So I was reading through one of my favorite MSDN blogs (http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/)

And he...

re: Performance Quiz #6 -- Looking at the sixth cut

ricom — Sat, 21 May 2005 22:37:58 GMT

I assure you Raymond doesn't need any defense :)

Remember I work with Raymond, we talked about this series of postings at some length quite some time ago and then again when this got to the top of his queue.

It's all supposed to be an educational illustration. The competitive language is just a facade to make it less of a dry read.

The outcome was never really in question, the journey is the illustration.

Actually I think the fact that Raymond just did what he thought was best (well in advance of my comments) at each stage makes it more interesting, not less.

re: Performance Quiz #6 -- Looking at the sixth cut

Nemanja Trifunovic — Sat, 21 May 2005 15:41:08 GMT

>Six versions and quite a bit of work later, >we've been soundly trumped

Excuse me, but this is not fair. Raymond has never tried to beat any "managed" version (I bet he doesn't even know about your effort - you started it after he went to vacation) - all he wanted to prove is that to achieve optimization you need to measure and not to gues where the bottleneck is.

Optimizing managed C# vs. native C++ code

Jonathan Hardwick — Sat, 21 May 2005 02:43:30 GMT

Raymond Chen (aka "fixed more Windows bugs than you've had hot dinners") and Rico Mariani (aka "Mr .NET...