Computer Language Effciency via Data Envelopment Analysis

Table 2

Summary of the results of the DEA analysis: mean and lowest efficiency scores over the available set of benchmark problems.

	Binary trees	Fannkuch	Fasta	Mandelbrot	𝑛-body	𝑛-sieve	𝑛-sieve bits
Mean eff.	0.68	0.74	0.72	0.74	0.58	0.65	0.67
Lower eff.	0.18	0.18	0.29	0.34	0.14	0.11	0.15
No. of eff.	15	15	11	14	11	10	14
	Partial-sum	Pidigits	Recursive	Reverse-complement	Spectral-norm	Startup	Sum-file
Mean eff.	0.74	0.69	0.62	0.65	0.63	0.591	0.68
Lower eff.	0.22	0.18	0.17	0.19	0.12	0.08	0.18
No. of eff.	17	13	12	12	11	13	12