Smalltalk VW programs versus Java by benchmark task performance binary-trees source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Smalltalk VW 31.15 375,020 938 83.72 59% 78% 64% 71% Java 8.39 933,808 835 28.28 82% 86% 84% 88% pidigits source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Smalltalk VW 13.37 55,996 773 13.36 1% 1% 100% 1% Java 3.13 36,984 938 3.36 4% 4% 99% 3% spectral-norm source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Smalltalk VW 32.22 244,048 1054 82.07 84% 83% 84% 86% Java 4.38 35,388 950 16.80 96% 96% 95% 97% n-body source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Smalltalk VW 194.34 56,384 1805 194.29 100% 0% 0% 1% Java 22.17 33,040 1489 22.27 100% 1% 0% 1% fasta source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Smalltalk VW 47.34 56,084 1536 47.32 100% 1% 1% 0% Java 2.27 43,628 2473 5.93 51% 75% 57% 81% mandelbrot source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Smalltalk VW 214.93 118,764 940 151.34 28% 75% 68% 98% Java 6.10 76,520 796 23.59 97% 98% 98% 96% fannkuch-redux source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Smalltalk VW 694.43 53,736 927 694.06 1% 100% 1% 1% Java 18.27 31,820 1282 72.06 99% 99% 98% 98% k-nucleotide source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Smalltalk VW 652.47 387,932 1303 651.61 39% 63% 34% 21% Java 8.75 385,056 1812 27.09 85% 72% 70% 85% reverse-complement source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Smalltalk VW Make Error Java 0.34 2,096 2183 0.49 50% 56% 24% 47% regex-redux source secs mem gz cpu cpu load No program contribute your program Java 0.66 45,016 929 2.03 94% 72% 77% 71% Smalltalk VW VisualWorks® Personal Use Edition Release 8.2 of July 15, 2016 Java java 10 2018-03-20 Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment 18.3 (build 10+46) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 18.3 (build 10+46, mixed mode) vs Java vs Python