I've been doing some quick and dirty shootouts running the Petstore app from TW-commons RubyForge project. The purpose of this exercise was not to draw any conclusions, but to get a gut feel for the various factors that have significant impact on performa
I did some research recently on memcached and how it compares to ehcache. The following graph shows the time taken for 10,000 puts, gets and removes, for 10,000 cache items. It uses the latest released versions of memcached and ehcache. In memcached's cas
I just saw this page comparing the performance of several languages on a simple Mandelbrot set generator. His numbers show Java being over twice as slow as C, but then I noticed that he's using an older version of java and only running the test once, whic
I've always enjoyed fractals, and was curious if scripting languages were up to the task. I wrote a very simple Mandelbrot set generator for my test. Rather than optimizing for each language, I tried to write each program in approximately the same way in
A. Dulny, A. Hotho, and A. Krause. Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: Research Track, page 438--455. Cham, Springer Nature Switzerland, (2023)
A. Dulny, A. Hotho, and A. Krause. Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: Research Track, page 438--455. Cham, Springer Nature Switzerland, (2023)
A. Dulny, A. Hotho, and A. Krause. Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: Research Track, page 438--455. Cham, Springer Nature Switzerland, (2023)