Benchmarking evolutionary algorithms

People tend to think that there is a simple way of implementing evolutionary algorithms: whatever language they’re the most familiar with, or, by default, Java or C++. So after receiving several carps from reviewers who didn’t like our use of non-conventional languages like JavaScript of Perl, we decided to test a pile of languages performing simple evolutionary operations: mutation and crossover, and also a very common benchmark, OneMax.
Our poster was accepted in the ECTA conference and we recently presented it in Porto. Have a look at the paper and poster source https://github.com/geneura-papers/2016-ea-languages-PPSN/releases/tag/v1.0ECTA that uses Knitr, and check out the poster.