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File I/O benchmarks

I recently wrote a file I/O benchmark that uses gnuplot to generate graphs that compare the performance of the Lua/APR binding vs. the Lua standard library. Below you can see the resulting graphs when I run the benchmark script on my laptop. Some notes about the following graphs:

• My laptop uses full disk encryption, AFAIK this shouldn’t invalidate the comparison, but it explains why the absolute values are so low for both implementations :-)
• The file I/O benchmark script is my first use of gnuplot so the graphs could be better (if you have suggestions I’d love to hear them!)
• This benchmark was last run using Lua/APR version 0.17.3

Last updated Sun May 15 13:01:40 UTC 2011.