[Question] Performance comparison with equivalent regular programs

[p-nordmann]

Hello,

First of all, congrats to the author! I find it very impressive that you were able to implement an HVM4 in a few days / weeks.

I have a question which is related to something more general than the implementation, but as you likely know HVM very well, I think you will be able to answer.

The performance that you measured is in interactions per seconds, but I have a hard time grasping what it represents. I keep in mind that the goal is not to outperform C or to compare it for regular workloads, but I would be very curious to know how it compares for equivalent programs. For instance, if you have a regular, optimised, implementation of a program in C and write an equivalent program for HVM4, I would be curious about comparing runtimes and linking it to the number of interactions. Equivalently, how many interactions per second would "match" the original program's performance?

Please, let me know whether my question is clear or not.

Thank you in advance for your help. :)

Pierre-Louis

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