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Does C# Measure Up?

Posted by Cliff on from the bring-out-the-byte-meter dept.

An anonymous reader queries: "Windows::Developer is offering a detailed, quantitative examination [free login required] of C#'s performance versus Java, C, C++ and D. 'Overall the results were surprising, although perhaps unexciting, in showing that C# (and to a less extent Java) is, to a good degree, on a par in efficiency terms with its older and (presumed to be) more efficient counterparts C and C++ at least as far as the basic language features compared in this analysis are concerned,' writes the author, Matthew Wilson. I'm only an amateur coder, and confess to not understanding most of the two-part article. I'd love to hear how true programmers view his results, which are too wide-ranging to summarize easily here. How about it Slashdot, as this special edition asks, 'Can C# keep up with compiled languages like C, C++, and D or byte-code based Java?'"

While we're on the topic of C#, rnd() queries: "It's been a while now, since Mono and DotGnu have begun eroding the market power of Microsoft by creating open source implementations of C# and the Common Language Runtime. Over the weekend I loaded Mono and did some informal benchmarking of object creation, intensive message passing, massive iteration, etc., and the results show that Mono is about 90% as fast as Microsoft's implementation after a very short time. I now want to switch my .NET development over to Linux/Mono exclusively, but I want to first settle on a free alternative to Visual Studio .NET 2003. Any suggestions?"

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  1. No by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No it doesn't. Does this first post?

  2. I'm not a subscriber by Bingo+Foo · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And I get a chance to fail it at FP?

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    taken! (by Davidleeroth) Thanks Bingo Foo!
  3. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    brr! it's already 2:32AM and still no First Posts ;]

  4. Fsirt Psot? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Fsirt Psot?

  5. Re:DD# is better by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    you suck. foad.

  6. I'm holding out for... by obladioblada · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    D flat, damn it.

  7. I don't get it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Where's my daily SCO story? Two icons for RedHat on front page today, where;s the SCO wrap-up for the day?

  8. IN SOVIET RUSSIA... by Un+pobre+guey · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Jokes in which the jokers are the joke are no joke.

  9. OT: ancient philosphy by pyrrho · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    pyrrhonist, as in The Outlines of Pyrrhonism?

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    -pyrrho

    1. Re:OT: ancient philosphy by pyrrhonist · · Score: 0, Offtopic
      pyrrhonist, as in The Outlines of Pyrrhonism?

      You got it, dood.

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