Performance Benchmarks of Nine Languages 954
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... (Score:5, Funny)
They probably cheat and use undocumented native OS calls.
Their server is getting a good test right now (Score:1, Funny)
Slashdotted (Score:5, Funny)
RP
Re:They should benchmark development time (Score:4, Funny)
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 (Score:2, Funny)