Performance Benchmarks of Nine Languages

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."

Re:Trig functions...

[Kingpin]

They probably cheat and use undocumented native OS calls.

Their server is getting a good test right now

[Anonymous Coward]

They should have picked the fastest language for their server.

Slashdotted

[ReadParse]

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

RP

Re:They should benchmark development time

[ultrabot]

Ummm.. Slashdot is written in Perl, as are many other large projects. I've yet to see anything like Slashdot written in Awk.

I heard there was a vote b/w Perl, Awk, Intercal and sed, and Perl won by a narrow margin.

Re:Language performance arguments miss the point

[Anonymous Coward]

Of course it is! It runs on the Windows machine in my office and the one down the hall.