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Performance Benchmarks of Nine Languages

Posted by michael on 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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  1. testing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    this is a test?

  2. 2nd post!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Allow me to be the first to say... BFD!

  3. Michael you worthless tub of shit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    You are a waste of my time


    I LOVE U

    Thanks

  4. Java is dying by zBoD · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Fact: Windows 98 is dying

    It is common knowledge that Java is dying. Everyone knows that ever hapless Java is mired in an irrecoverable and mortifying tangle of fatal trouble. It is perhaps anybody's guess as to which Java is the worst off of an admittedly suffering Java community. The numbers continue to decline for Java but Java 1.4 may be hurting the most. Look at the numbers. The erosion of user base for FreeBSD continues in a head spinning downward spiral.

    All major marketing surveys show that Java has steadily declined in market share. Java is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Java is to survive at all it will be among hobbyist dilettante dabblers. In truth, for all practical purposes Java is already dead. It is a dead man walking.

    Fact: Java is dying

    --
    BoD
  5. proposed manned moon/mars shot deemed safer than by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    trans-atlantic flight? that's gooed news? at leased we'll still be able to go somewhere?

    no wonder the fuddites have promoted the 'illegal' aliens? trying to steal their pateNTdead magnetron minimizer no DOWt?

  6. Re:Trig functions... by gangien · · 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.