Curl®, Inc. today announced the results from a recent performance benchmark test of the Curl Rich Internet Application (RIA) platform, Version 6.0, and Adobe Flex 3. The test aimed to compare the performance of these two RIA platforms and found the Curl language to outperform ActionScript 3, the programming language of the Adobe Flash Player runtime, by a factor of 8 to 10. This finding is particularly significant for developers seeking highly productive ways to build mission-critical, enterprise-class RIAs that require high performance capabilities.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (Business Wire EON) May 28, 2008 --
Curl®,
Inc. today announced the results from a recent performance benchmark
test of the Curl Rich
Internet Application (RIA) platform, Version 6.0, and Adobe Flex 3.
The test aimed to compare the performance of these two RIA platforms and
found the Curl
language to outperform ActionScript 3, the programming language of
the Adobe Flash Player runtime, by a factor of 8 to 10. This finding is
particularly significant for developers seeking highly productive ways
to build mission-critical, enterprise-class
RIAs that require high performance capabilities.
The benchmark test, conducted by Curl engineers, comprised of
implementing a JPEG encoding algorithm. This is an ideal test case for
performance since JPEG encoding is a useful and common computational
task. The engineers first translated an existing ActionScript program
for JPEG encoding to Curl and compared the resulting performance for
three images ranging from small to moderately large.
The
results of the test showed that Curl retains a substantial advantage
in raw execution speed, attributed mostly to the significant difference
in the two platforms’ programming languages.
While the Curl language was architected to support compiling to
efficient code, Adobe’s ActionScript was not.
The end result is Curl’s superior performance
for building enterprise RIAs.
“Curl was designed to be a very powerful,
high-performing language and platform, and we have always been proud of
this unmatched capability,” said Bert
Halstead, vice president and chief architect, Curl. “However,
in order to consistently demonstrate our dominance in this area, we
understand the need to constantly test ourselves against other solutions
on the market. The results of this test support our claims, and we will
continue to expand on this study to further document Curl’s
superiority for enterprise RIAs.”
Curl consistently outperformed Action Script in each of the three test
cases. Specific results on the 2.26 GHz benchmark machine included:
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For the small image – 700 by 933, 0.65
megapixels and 72 kB in size – Curl
performed in 0.16 seconds and Flex in 1.72 seconds.
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For the medium image – 1170 by 1560, 1.83
megapixels and 195 kB in size – Curl
recorded 0.46 seconds with Flex at 4.43 seconds.
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For the large image – 2,560 by 1,920, 4.92
megapixels and 511 kB in size – Curl’s
time was 1.36 seconds, and Flex’s was 11.69
seconds.
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About Curl, Inc.
Curl provides a Rich Internet Application platform for building and
deploying Web-based applications that demand complex, highly interactive
interfaces previously only possible as client-server applications. Using
Curl, developers can implement a new class of complex,
business-critical, Web-based applications that cannot easily be
developed with Ajax or other smart client technologies. Curl allows
corporations with legacy client-server applications to move to Web-based
delivery, increasing reach and reducing cost. Founded in 1998, Curl is
headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts and is a wholly owned
subsidiary of Sumisho Computer Systems. Curl has over 300 customers and
40 partners world-wide. For more information visit http://www.curl.com.
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