Benchmark

version 6.5 (i5-8250U windows10 2021/6/19)

running time and gc time:

file	call gc	total time	gc time
pi.nas	12000049	0.593s	0.222s
fib.nas	10573747	2.838s	0.187s
bp.nas	4419829	1.99s	0.18s
bigloop.nas	4000000	0.419s	0.039s
mandelbrot.nas	1044630	0.433s	0.041s
life.nas	817112	8.557s	0.199s
ascii-art.nas	45612	0.48s	0.027s
calc.nas	8089	0.068s	0.006s
quick_sort.nas	2768	0.107s	0s
bfs.nas	2471	1.763s	0.003s

operands calling frequency:

file	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th
pi.nas	callg	pop	mcallg	pnum	pone
fib.nas	calll	pnum	callg	less	jf
bp.nas	calll	callg	pop	callv	addeq
bigloop.nas	pnum	less	jf	callg	pone
mandelbrot.nas	callg	mult	loadg	pnum	pop
life.nas	calll	callv	pnum	jf	callg
ascii-art.nas	calll	pop	mcalll	callg	callb
calc.nas	calll	pop	pstr	mcalll	jmp
quick_sort.nas	calll	pop	jt	jf	less
bfs.nas	calll	pop	callv	mcalll	jf

operands calling total times:

file	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th
pi.nas	6000004	6000003	6000000	4000005	4000002
fib.nas	17622792	10573704	7049218	7049155	7049155
bp.nas	7081480	4227268	2764676	2617112	2065441
bigloop.nas	4000001	4000001	4000001	4000001	4000000
mandelbrot.nas	1519632	563856	290641	286795	284844
life.nas	2114371	974244	536413	534794	489743
ascii-art.nas	37906	22736	22402	18315	18292
calc.nas	191	124	109	99	87
quick_sort.nas	16226	5561	4144	3524	2833
bfs.nas	24707	16297	14606	14269	8672

version 7.0 (i5-8250U ubuntu-WSL on windows10 2021/6/29)

running time:

file	total time	info
pi.nas	0.15625s	great improvement
fib.nas	0.75s	great improvement
bp.nas	0.4218s(7162 epoch)	good improvement
bigloop.nas	0.09375s	great improvement
mandelbrot.nas	0.0312s	great improvement
life.nas	8.80s(windows) 1.25(ubuntu WSL)	little improvement
ascii-art.nas	0.015s	little improvement
calc.nas	0.0468s	little improvement
quick_sort.nas	0s	great improvement
bfs.nas	0.0156s	great improvement

version 8.0 (R9-5900HX ubuntu-WSL 2022/1/23)

running time:

file	total time	info
bf.nas	1100.19s
mandel.nas	28.98s
life.nas	0.56s	0.857s(windows)
ycombinator.nas	0.64s
fib.nas	0.28s
bfs.nas	0.156s	random result
pi.nas	0.0625s
bigloop.nas	0.047s
calc.nas	0.03125s	changed test file
mandelbrot.nas	0.0156s
ascii-art.nas	0s
quick_sort.nas	0s

version 9.0 (R9-5900HX ubuntu-WSL 2022/2/13)

running time:

file	total time	info
bf.nas	276.55s	great improvement
mandel.nas	28.16s
ycombinator.nas	0.59s
life.nas	0.2s	0.649s(windows)
fib.nas	0.234s	little improvement
bfs.nas	0.14s	random result
pi.nas	0.0625s
bigloop.nas	0.047s
calc.nas	0.0469s	changed test file
quick_sort.nas	0.016s	changed test file:100->1e4
mandelbrot.nas	0.0156s
ascii-art.nas	0s

bf.nas is a very interesting test file that there is a brainfuck interpreter written in nasal. And we use this bf interpreter to draw a mandelbrot set.

In 2022/2/17 update we added \e into the lexer. And the bfcolored.nas uses this special ASCII code. Here is the result: