[arshajii]

We do have a benchmark suite at https://github.com/exaloop/codon/tree/develop/bench and results on a couple different architectures at https://exaloop.io/benchmarks

[_aavaa_]

Why are do the C++ implementations perform so poorly?

[camel-cdr]

My guess for word_count and faq is that the C++ implementation uses std::unordered_map, which famously has quite poor performance. [0]

[0] https://martin.ankerl.com/2019/04/01/hashmap-benchmarks-01-o...