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Discussion on: "Hello World" performance comparison between GraalVM and Go

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maartyl

Thank you for informing me about the existence of GraalVM. I've never heard about it.

The binary size comparison is interesting.

As for measuring time: Doing it once is useless. The rest of the system surely impacted those times more than the programs themselves. Also, they are so tiny, they have no informative value. - All we know is that it does not start a runtime VM, that would take as long as JVM to start.

A more interesting "hello world" benchmark would be maybe something like: allocating a few hundred thousand objects and sorting them - repeating 50 times, or so.

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Theofanis Despoudis

Feel free to try it out.

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Konstantin Ignatyev

Just for fun I have implemented a decent utility in Java, Rust, Go, and then modified Java version to be compile it to native image. Surprisingly: Java based native image outperformed even Rust version. I suspect that it can be attributed to high quality implementation of JSON parser. 93ms vs 125ms

github.com/kgignatyev/hiera-ctp