It's actually not so bad. It's just JavaScript and maybe my code (I wrote JS version).
Roger Alsing (who was the original author and inspiration) did later an optimized compiled parallel version that was able to get Mona Lisa in 1 minute 34 seconds (on a 64 bit 4 core machine).
Roger Alsing (who was the original author and inspiration) did later an optimized compiled parallel version that was able to get Mona Lisa in 1 minute 34 seconds (on a 64 bit 4 core machine).
http://rogeralsing.com/2009/01/04/scaling-clustere-evolution...
Also there are supposed to be some efforts to run it on GPU, which should be even faster.