On: Codon: A high-performance Python-like compiler usi...

[memco]

Don't have anything significant, but giving this a quick test with some of my advent of code solutions I found it to be quite a bit slower:

   time python day_2.py             

   ________________________________________________________
   Executed in   57.25 millis    fish           external
      usr time   25.02 millis   52.00 micros   24.97 millis
      sys time   25.01 millis  601.00 micros   24.41 millis


   time codon run -release day_2.py 

   ________________________________________________________
   Executed in  955.58 millis    fish           external
      usr time  923.39 millis   62.00 micros  923.33 millis
      sys time   31.76 millis  685.00 micros   31.07 millis


   time codon run -release day_8.py 

   ________________________________________________________
   Executed in  854.23 millis    fish           external
      usr time  819.11 millis   78.00 micros  819.03 millis
      sys time   34.67 millis  712.00 micros   33.96 millis

   time python day_8.py             

   ________________________________________________________
   Executed in   55.30 millis    fish           external
      usr time   22.59 millis   54.00 micros   22.54 millis
      sys time   25.86 millis  642.00 micros   25.22 millis

It wasn't a ton of work to get running, but I had to comment out some stuff that isn't available. Some notable pain points: I couldn't import code from another file in the same directory and I couldn't do zip(*my_list) because asterisk wasn't supported in that way. I would consider revisiting it if I needed a single-file program that needs to work on someone else's machine if the compilation works as easily as the examples.

[arshajii → memco]

I would guess the bulk of the time is being spent in compilation. You might try "codon build -release day_2.py" then "time ./day_2" to measure just runtime.

[memco → arshajii]

Good catch! Here's updated runs:

   time python day_2.py

   ________________________________________________________
   Executed in   51.26 millis    fish           external
      usr time   23.38 millis   48.00 micros   23.33 millis
      sys time   21.88 millis  617.00 micros   21.26 millis

   time day_2

   ________________________________________________________
   Executed in  227.06 millis    fish           external
      usr time    8.17 millis   70.00 micros    8.10 millis
      sys time    6.69 millis  708.00 micros    5.98 millis

   time python day_8.py

   ________________________________________________________
   Executed in   53.63 millis    fish           external
      usr time   22.11 millis   51.00 micros   22.06 millis
      sys time   24.63 millis  714.00 micros   23.91 millis

   time day_8

   ________________________________________________________
   Executed in  115.89 millis    fish           external
      usr time    5.83 millis   92.00 micros    5.74 millis
      sys time    4.59 millis  856.00 micros    3.73 millis

Now codon is much faster than Python.

[crucialfelix → memco]

It looks like you are compiling and running. Try compiling to an executable and then benchmark running that