Benchmarking different programming languages on Game of Life.
Warning: Non-scientific approach. Please look at the code before making any conclusions.
The goal of this project is to benchmark several programming languages by implementing Game of Life. Implementations might not be the most efficient in a given programming language. I'm not experienced in any of those languages except Ruby.
Also, one of the goals is to check how "nice" a language is for implementing systems such as Game of Life, so striving for ultimate performance is not the goal.
1000 iterations with 100x100 board. VM with 2 cores.
| Language | Note | Result (ms) |
|---|---|---|
| Elixir | Sequential | 169,862 |
| Elixir | Every cell update in a separate process | 2,455,931 |
| Elixir | Every column in a separate process | 158,204 |
| Ruby | 87,656 | |
| JavaScript | Firefox, not in VM | 5,737 |