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C++ the Clear Winner In Google's Language Performance Tests
Paul Dubuc writes "Google has released a research paper (PDF) that suggests C++ is the best-performing language on the market. It's not for everyone, though. They write, '...it also required the most extensive tuning efforts, many of which were done at a level of sophistication that would not be available to the average programmer.'"
It's been common knowledge for at least a decade that Java is 6 months away from being quicker than c++.
They didn't test BASIC? Lame...
-I only code in BASIC.-
I remember that Borland Pascal (in 19991) executed almost 10 times faster than Borland C++ on a consistent basis on the same systems.
Apparently, the reason it executed so fast was because it was reaching 18000 years into the future to run on the computers of the galaxy-spanning civilization built by the hyperspatial god-beings who will be our distant descendants. Man, Borland had some great tech in its day.
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
A prof of mine used to say that "writing a program in assembly is like writing a novel in math."
Anything longer than a haiku and you''ll want to blow your brains out.
Just for future reference, not everything I say is necessarily applicable in every situation. For instance, Java does not run very fast at all on my abacus. It would also be possible to craft some programs where the Java version would exhibit pathologically bad behavior and/or the C++ version would behave particularly well, and the consequences of GCs moving things around wouldn't be a big deal.
Talk to Java heads they'll tell you Java is already faster than C++. They can show you some contrived tests to demonstrate this too! Of course they never seem to have a good answer for why if this is the case all performance important apps (like games, audio software, etc) are written in something else or why Java linpack pulls like 750Mflops on a system where native compiled (from C) Linpack gets 41Gflops. However they are sure it is faster!