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.'"

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Re:Common knowledge

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There's a lot of Java-ites who claim that Java is just as fast. They're idiots, but they're vocal.