SWIFT VS PYTHON: THE FINAL ROUND

Andrea Padula

SYN TAX PERFORM ANCE

There are little small difference in python and swift :

- CONDITIONAL STATEM ENTS
The first performance that I analyze is sorting. Sort a list of 1,000,000 elements in ascending order. The
- DECLARING CONSTANTS AND VARIABLES
numbers were generated from a ranged of ?1000 to 1000. Quick sort was used for both languages.
Swift has rich support for type inference and constants. Python is dynamic and does
not natively support constants

- INTEGER BOUNDS
Python does not have upper bounds for integer numbers.While swift has 32 bit limit
like Java.
var b = Int32.max The second comparison was done by multiply two matrices 500 x 500

- TYPE INFERENCE
Swift is a strongly-typed language and uses type-inference, but you can declare a
variable with an explicit type. On the other hand Python is a dynamic language , so
there is no type system , but it is not evident in the syntax.

- LOOPS
In python there are only two type of loops. While loop and for loop. While
in Swift we have 4 type of loop:
-1 for-in
This loop is typical loop that loop thought each item in a range.

CON CLU SION

In my study Swift ended up to be the fastest in both cases: sorting and multiplication of a matrix.
In fact when Swift in sorting was 1.4 on average faster than Python. However in multiply
-2 for loop
matrices Swift out performed Python by a lot. In fact, Swift was 4 times faster than Python. The
- ARRAYS AND DICTIONARIES this is the same loop that we have in python code that I used for both languages was pretty much the same in time complexity. Therefore
Declaring an array and dictionary is almost identical in both languages.
-3 while loop based on my study we can definitely say that SWIFT was faster. Apple 's statement on Swift
this is like in pyhton. a group of statements that are going to be repeated presentation " Swift is faster than Python " is actually proven by my tests. However , I wasn't able
when the condition is true. otherwise it will stop to replicate the numbers of Swift's presentation where Apple claimed that Swift was on avrage
-4 do...while loop 100 times faster than Python. However, in Apple's presentation no reference is provided about
Like a while statement, except we know that the statement is going to be how they got those result , no mention of the machine or operating system or algorithm used to
executed at least once. time and to perform the benchmarks.

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