Lead dev here. We've run a couple of benchmarks internally just for kicks. To create a fair comparison, you have to run the Hotspot JVM with the -Xint flag, which says interpret only. Right now our performance is anywhere from 15-25% of the speed of Hotspot with -Xint on small benchmarks. We figure that the use of go alone creates some important portion of that overhead when compared with the C++ of the Hotspot JVM. We're guessing that a well-optimized Jacobin interpreter will eventually get to 50-60% of the Hotspot's -Xint speed.
But we first want to get feature parity, before pivoting to performance. When we have feature parity, we'll run the Computer Language Benchmarks and post the results. That'll be fun to see!
But we first want to get feature parity, before pivoting to performance. When we have feature parity, we'll run the Computer Language Benchmarks and post the results. That'll be fun to see!