WILL
22-01-2006, 11:08 PM
As you can probably tell from the news icon, Bench2 by Laurent Duveau is a benchmark routine test for PalmOS compilers. The test program routine is translated into the main languages that all the tested compilers support; Pascal, BASIC, C, Java, Forth, CASL, Lua, HELP, Scheme, Rexx, Tcl and LME.
The 3 goals in order of their importance to Bench2:
<ul> Provide a simple but quite rich example of a routine in different languages, for educational purposes. As a result, the comparison of the different source codes provided on this page is very interesting. Find a routine that an average amateur programmer could possibly write, not especially optimized but giving the same right result. Result is more important than means... In order to give a playful purpose to the writing of the same routine in different languages, try to evaluate compilers & interpreters efficiency, designed to work on the Palm OS environment where performance and speed are of key importance.[/list]
I should also note that PP ('http://www.ppcompiler.org/'), Pocket Studio 1.1 ('http://www.winsoft.sk/pstudio.htm') and HS Pascal ('http://hspascal.fihl.net/') were all tested and found to be among the top 5. The quickest of them being PP while in ARM mode, closely followed by Code Warrior ('http://www.metrowerks.com/').
You can find Bench2 and the results of all tests conducted at www.aldweb.com ('http://www.aldweb.com/articles.php?lng=en&pg=24')!
The 3 goals in order of their importance to Bench2:
<ul> Provide a simple but quite rich example of a routine in different languages, for educational purposes. As a result, the comparison of the different source codes provided on this page is very interesting. Find a routine that an average amateur programmer could possibly write, not especially optimized but giving the same right result. Result is more important than means... In order to give a playful purpose to the writing of the same routine in different languages, try to evaluate compilers & interpreters efficiency, designed to work on the Palm OS environment where performance and speed are of key importance.[/list]
I should also note that PP ('http://www.ppcompiler.org/'), Pocket Studio 1.1 ('http://www.winsoft.sk/pstudio.htm') and HS Pascal ('http://hspascal.fihl.net/') were all tested and found to be among the top 5. The quickest of them being PP while in ARM mode, closely followed by Code Warrior ('http://www.metrowerks.com/').
You can find Bench2 and the results of all tests conducted at www.aldweb.com ('http://www.aldweb.com/articles.php?lng=en&pg=24')!