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."

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Re:Trig functions... by gangien · 2004-01-09 10:52 · Score: 1, Offtopic

I made a pong game in Scheme, and I had that problem. GC would cause my game to freeze up and it was really pretty bad. So instead I told it to GC every loop, lagged the game, but it was consistent so far less noticable.