Here we show benchmark comparison of G-language GAE 1.8.11 and BioPerl 1.5.2.

These benchmarks were done on Dual CPU Intel Core2 Xeon 3GHz (8GB RAM) Machine.

use Benchmark;
use G;
use Bio::SeqIO;
 
$count = 100;
$value = "NC_000913.gbk";
 
timethese($count,
          {'G-language' => '&test1;', 'BioPerl' => '&test2;', });
 
sub test1 {
    $str = $value;
    my $gb = new G($value, "no msg");
}
 
sub test2 {
    $str = $value;
    my $in = Bio::SeqIO->new(-file=>$value, '-format'=>'GenBank');
    my $seq = $in->next_seq();
}

Benchmark: timing 100 iterations of BioPerl, G-language...
   BioPerl: 746 wallclock secs (743.09 usr +  2.70 sys = 745.79 CPU) @  0.13/s (n=100)
G-language: 23 wallclock secs (22.31 usr +  0.52 sys = 22.83 CPU) @  4.38/s (n=100)

G-language GAE is 32x faster.

use Benchmark;
use G;
use Bio::SeqIO;
 
$count = 100;
$value = "NC_000913.gbk";
 
timethese($count,
          {'G-language' => '&test1;', 'BioPerl' => '&test2;', });
 
sub test1 {
    $str = $value;
    my $gb = new G($value, "no msg", "no cache");
}
 
sub test2 {
    $str = $value;
    my $in = Bio::SeqIO->new(-file=>$value, '-format'=>'GenBank');
    my $seq = $in->next_seq();
}

Benchmark: timing 100 iterations of BioPerl, G-language...
   BioPerl: 747 wallclock secs (743.60 usr +  2.70 sys = 746.30 CPU) @  0.13/s (n=100)
G-language: 105 wallclock secs (104.07 usr +  0.82 sys = 104.89 CPU) @  0.95/s (n=100)

G-language GAE is 7x faster.