Vala Benchmarking

I have just got around to re-running some old Vala benchmarks, as found at:
http://code.google.com/p/vala-benchmarks/

Specification:

I used the following compiler versions:

Mono JIT compiler version 2.6.7
gcc version 4.4.5
Vala 0.14.0.61-61431

You can find my diff of the source tree here.

Size Benchmarks:

 

Name	C++	Mono	plain-C	Vala
mandelbrot	4441	1375	2503	3032
partialSums	3100	1500	5842	6658
recursive	6171	1488	5827	6494
binaryTrees	5455	1538	4945	6916
sumFile	2603	1180	2003	4619
fannkuch	7728	1472	4594	7932
spectralNorm	5808	1498	3970	6464
nsieve	2711	1258	2186	4651
nBody	5859	2280	4758	7487

Time Benchmarks:

Name	C++	Mono	plain-C	Vala
mandelbrot	5.17	10.89	5.14	5.00
partialSums	7.72	14.29	9.00	8.95
recursive	5.72	9.99	3.16	3.45
binaryTrees	9.74	16.12	8.20	11.18
sumFile	3.97	10.38	2.92	3.34
fannkuch	5.09	9.57	4.83	4.69
spectralNorm	8.86	14.76	8.96	8.95
nsieve	15.94	16.14	15.82	15.64
nBody	6.71	15.30	6.74	7.22

Graphs:

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