Performance Benchmarks of Nine Languages

Posted by michael on Friday January 9, 2004 @03:29AM from the tmtowtdi dept.

ikewillis writes "OSnews compares the relative performance of nine languages and variants on Windows: Java 1.3.1, Java 1.4.2, C compiled with gcc 3.3.1, Python 2.3.2, Python compiled with Psyco 1.1.1, Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual C++, and Visual J#. His conclusion was that Visual C++ was the winner, but in most of the benchmarks Java 1.4 performed on par with native code, even surpassing gcc 3.3.1's performance. I conducted my own tests pitting Java 1.4 against gcc 3.3 and icc 8.0 using his benchmark code, and found Java to perform significantly worse than C on Linux/Athlon."

2 of 954 comments (clear)

Re:Trig functions... by Kingpin · 2004-01-09 03:34 · Score: 4, Funny

They probably cheat and use undocumented native OS calls.

--
Unable to read configuration file '/bigassraid/htdig//conf/14229.conf'
Geocrawler error message.
Slashdotted by ReadParse · 2004-01-09 04:57 · Score: 4, Funny

They should have written their site in one of the higher-performing languages.

RP