Hash Table Shootout 2: Rise of the Interpreter Machines
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When writing LuaHashMap, the biggest question was always, "How is the performance?". The dogma is that it should be slow since it's going through an interpreter ("scripting language"). But wisdom demands benchmarks before making unsubstantiated claims.... So this seemed like a good basis to start a new round of benchmarks. But why stop at Lua? So let's do a whole suite of interpreted languages that would otherwise be dismissed. So I'm incorportating Lua, Python, Ruby, Perl, and Tcl.
Interpreted "scripting" languages don't have to be slow. Here's why.