redid the old benchmarks

With #26 out of the way, was able to get meaningful rubyx benchmarks. Meaning loops large enough for the exec time to go significantly over the noop.
Did mruby too and as expected got much lower noop

test/bench/c/hello.c

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 int main(void)
 {
+  setbuf(stdout, NULL); /* to make it equivalent to the other versions, otherwise it caches */
   int counter = 100000;
 	while(counter--) {
     printf("Hello there\n");

test/bench/results.md

@@ -7,8 +7,10 @@ noop  - a baseline that does nothing
 
 All programs (apart from noop) run 100k times to minimize startup impact.
 
-C was linked statically as dynamic linked influences times. Output was sent to /dev/null, so as
-to measure the calling and not the terminal.
+C was linked statically as dynamic linked influences times.
+Output was sent to /dev/null, so as to measure the calling and not the terminal.
+Also output was unbuffered, because that is what rubyx implements.
+
 # Results
 
 Results were measured by a ruby script. Mean and variance was measured until variance was low,
@@ -16,14 +18,12 @@ always under one percent. Noop showed that program startup is a factor, so all p
 to 100k.
 
 The machine was a virtual arm (qemu) run on a acer swift 5 (i5 8265 3.9GHz), performance roughly equivalent to a raspberry pi.
-But results (in ms) should be seen as relative, not absolute.
+Results (in ms) should be seen as relative, not absolute.
 
 
-language  |  noop   |  hello  |  add    | call        
-c         |  45     |  100    |  72     | 591
-go        |  53     |  4060   |  64     | 624
-rubyx     |  42     |  1245   | ?????   | ????
-
-ruby      |  1830   | 2750    | 3000    | 1900_000
-
-Comparison with ruby, not really for speed, just to see how much leeway there is in the future.
+language  |  noop   |  hello   |  add   |  call        
+c         |    45   |  3480    |   72   |   591
+go        |    53   |  4000    |   64   |   624
+rubyx     |    47   |  1660    |  800   |  2000
+ruby      |  1570   |  8240    | 2700   | 12370
+mruby     |   108   | 11210    | 1580   | 23400

test/bench/ruby/calls.rb

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ def fibo_r( n )
 end
 
 
- counter = 100
+ counter = 10000
 
  while(counter > 0) do
    fibo_r(10)

test/bench/ruby/hello.rb

@@ -2,5 +2,7 @@
 counter = 100000;
 while(counter > 0) do
   puts "Hello there"
+  # roughly 4 times slower with this, which is like rubyx
+  #STDOUT.flush
   counter = counter - 1
 end

test/bench/rubyx/adds.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+class Space
+
+  def fibo_i(fib)
+    a = 0
+    b = fib
+    while( a < b )
+      a = a + 1
+      b = b - 1
+    end
+    return a
+  end
+
+  # ran with --parfait=100000
+  # (time - noop) * 25 + noop
+  def main(arg)
+    b = 4000
+    while( b >= 1 )
+      b = b - 1
+      fibo_i(20)
+    end
+    return b
+  end
+end

test/bench/rubyx/calls.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+class Space
+
+  def fibo_r(fib)
+    n = fib
+    a = 0
+    b = 1
+    i = 1
+    while( i < n )
+      result = a + b
+      a = b
+      b = result
+      i = i + 1
+    end
+    return result
+  end
+
+  # ran with --parfait=80000
+  # (time - noop) * 50 + noop
+  def main(arg)
+    b = 2000
+    while( b >= 1 )
+      b = b - 1
+      fibo_r(20)
+    end
+    return b
+  end
+end

test/bench/rubyx/hello.rb

@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 class Space
+  # ran with --parfait=25000
+  # time - noop * 10 + noop
   def main(arg)
-    b = 2*1000
+    b = 10000
     while( b >= 1 )
       b = b - 1
       "Hello-there\n".putstring