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Pike 7.6 Released

Posted by timothy on from the fighting-words dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Today version 7.6 of the Swedish programming language Pike was released. Some of the noteworthy additions are support for the Bittorrent protocol, the OBEX protocol (to communicate with cellular phones), IPv6, PGP and Bz2. If you want to beat the crap out of your Python/Perl program speedwise, try porting it to Pike..."

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  1. Re:How much faster? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Rerunning parts of the shootout with recent versions of the most interesting languages gives this for me (do view source for proper formatting):

    row 1: ackermann 8
    row 2: ary3 7000
    row 3: fibo 32
    row 4: hash 1000000
    row 5: hash2 200
    row 6: heapsort 100000
    row 7: lists 128
    row 8: methcall 1000000
    row 9: nestedloop 20
    row 10: objinst 1000000
    row 11: random 1800000
    row 12: sieve 1000
    row 13: strcat 5000000

    Java PHP Perl Pike Python Ruby TCL
    1: 4.13 12.72 4.89 0.61 4.55 9.32 Failed (Ackermann)
    2: 1.69 11.87 4.85 1.38 3.06 8.61 14.88 (ary3)
    3: 2.90 12.09 6.69 1.44 4.27 6.96 11.57 (fibo)
    4: 6.85 5.92 5.57 4.71 3.69 17.90 7.83 (hash)
    5: 7.15 4.95 3.98 2.28 2.93 3.98 5.11 (hash2)
    6: 1.53 8.59 3.57 1.12 2.54 6.29 8.34 (heapsort)
    7: 5.54 Missing 3.21 2.76 2.06 2.43 27.30 (lists)
    8: 2.18 Missing 6.70 2.15 4.68 3.47 Missing (methcall)
    9: 7.30 Failed 17.92 0.90 13.52 35.70 34.25 (nestedloop)
    10: 3.65 Missing 13.08 3.34 5.68 6.19 Missing (objinst)
    11: 1.99 5.81 2.33 2.30 2.94 5.96 5.85 (random)
    12: 6.59 Failed 12.27 4.66 9.77 18.19 50.58 (sieve)
    13: 3.19 4.63 2.30 1.78 4.46 3.73 7.05 (strcat)