I reordered by the cpu column (the last time column), to show more clearly, how these same languages/best implementations would rank if none of the entries where multi-threaded (or where we could be with, just that change, assuming linear speed-up), i.e. then we beat Ruby in the first benchmark…:
1.0 C++ g++ #2 3.83 156,104 1624 12.00 72% 73% 98% 72%
4.5 Lisp SBCL #6 17.37 541,992 2479 62.93 89% 88% 87% 100%
21 Python 3 #3 79.79 250,948 1967 5 min 98% 96% 96% 99%
100 Julia 6 min 1,584,956 870 6 min 2% 32% 56% 15%
81 Matz’s Ruby 5 min 126,652 637 16 min 95% 68% 84% 81%
Go’s advantage is much less, about 100$ faster:
3.3 Go #4 5.47 31,040 905 21.73 99% 99% 100% 99%
27 Julia 44.10 179,004 483 44.41 99% 0% 0% 1%
1.0 C gcc #3 3.72 117,408 836 11.80 76% 95% 75% 72%
1.0 C++ g++ #9 3.67 118,620 809 11.91 75% 78% 99% 76%
4.2 Fortran Intel #2 15.35 101,984 1148 15.34 0% 0% 1% 100%
7.6 Dart 27.97 896,244 457 31.46 8% 20% 17% 71%
4.1 Chapel #2 15.10 361,908 470 47.92 100% 56% 73% 92%
21 VW Smalltalk 76.53 375,276 744 76.44 42% 0% 0% 58%
8.6 VW Smalltalk #3 31.71 375,520 959 79.03 55% 57% 72% 67%
26 Julia 96.71 710,224 436 96.91 0% 0% 0% 100%
17 JRuby #5 60.98 2,336,824 1083 224.55 92% 92% 95% 91%
18 PHP #6 66.56 736,600 868 244.42 94% 92% 91% 96%
25 Python 3 92.72 448,844 589 5 min 87% 90% 96% 87%
The low-hanging fruit seems to involve multi-threading.
https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/program/spectralnorm-julia-1.html
1.0 Rust #6 1.97 2,600 1126 7.86 100% 100% 100% 99%
1.0 C gcc #4 1.98 1,160 1139 7.86 99% 99% 99% 99%
1.0 Fortran Intel #3 1.98 1,684 638 7.89
2.0 Lisp SBCL #5 4.00 19,368 899 15.73 99% 99% 99% 99%
2.1 Haskell GHC #4 4.17 3,812 987 15.74 99% 97% 99% 98%
8.2 Julia 16.20 146,932 440 16.49 1% 1% 100% 1%
8.2 Dart #5 16.16 120,132 489 16.64 2% 2% 99% 2%
1.0 C gcc #5 8.72 916 910 34.23 100% 100% 95% 99%
6.2 Julia 54.40 148,160 565 54.59 100% 0% 0% 1%
2.1 Java 17.91 31,560 1282 70.25 99% 98% 99% 97%
2.0 Go 17.83 1,480 900 71.04 100% 100% 100% 100%
3.0 Java AOT 25.93 8,488 1282 103.26 99% 100% 100% 100%
1.8 PHP 2.63 270,048 816 2.46 38% 39% 85% 38%
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4.0 Julia 5.88 349,980 541 6.16 2% 3% 100% 2%