jolt/bench/mandelbrot-hand.janet
Dmitri Sotnikov ae3f9f6e84
Spike: localize the mandelbrot 15x floor (jolt-5vsp) (#143)
The jolt-vs-hand-Janet-vs-JVM mandelbrot comparison splits the 15.4x floor
into two layers: a Janet-VM floor (~10.8x JVM, optimal while-loop Janet over
unboxed doubles — only native codegen moves it) plus a ~1.43x jolt loop-
lowering overhead on top. The overhead is entirely the loop/recur -> recursive-
closure-called-per-iteration lowering; hand-Janet written the same way matches
jolt, while a while+var/set version is 1.43x faster. So a cheap backend win
(jolt-v28u) sits above the structural native-codegen lever.

Adds the spike artifacts under bench/ and the results writeup; marks the spike
done in the handoff. No source changes.

Co-authored-by: Yogthos <yogthos@gmail.com>
2026-06-16 16:20:40 +00:00

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# mandelbrot — hand-written idiomatic Janet, same nested loop as bench/mandelbrot.clj.
# This is the "optimal Janet" leg of the foundational-runtime spike (jolt-5vsp):
# comparing jolt-emitted Janet vs this vs JVM localizes the 15x compute floor —
# jolt-backend overhead vs the Janet VM's own floor.
#
# janet bench/mandelbrot-hand.janet 200
(defn count-point [cr ci cap]
(var i 0)
(var zr 0.0)
(var zi 0.0)
(while (and (< i cap) (<= (+ (* zr zr) (* zi zi)) 4.0))
(def nzr (+ (- (* zr zr) (* zi zi)) cr))
(def nzi (+ (* 2.0 (* zr zi)) ci))
(set zr nzr)
(set zi nzi)
(++ i))
i)
(defn run [n]
(def cap 200)
(def nd (* 1.0 n))
(var acc 0)
(var y 0)
(while (< y n)
(def ci (- (/ (* 2.0 y) nd) 1.0))
(var x 0)
(var a 0)
(while (< x n)
(def cr (- (/ (* 2.0 x) nd) 1.5))
(set a (+ a (count-point cr ci cap)))
(++ x))
(set acc (+ acc a))
(++ y))
acc)
(defn main [& args]
(def n (if (> (length args) 1) (scan-number (get args 1)) 1000))
# warmup
(repeat 2 (run (div n 2)))
(def runs 3)
(def times @[])
(var last-r 0)
(repeat runs
(def t0 (os/clock))
(def r (run n))
(def ms (* 1000.0 (- (os/clock) t0)))
(set last-r r)
(array/push times ms))
(def mean (/ (sum times) runs))
(printf "mandelbrot n %d result %d" n last-r)
(print "runs: " (string/join (map |(string (/ (math/round (* $ 10.0)) 10.0)) times) " "))
(printf "mean: %.1f ms" mean))