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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
In <4A3621C4.604@gandalfsemporium.homelinux.com>, G T Smith wrote:
Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Saturday June 13 2009, G T Smith wrote:
C is much more efficient than Java. ... That is a myth. ?? Nonsense...
Benchmarks say otherwise.
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32q/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=all&box=1 is a fair set of benchmarks across languages. C and C++ are still the leaders as far as run time (with C++ beating C), but Java is right behind them overall and does run faster on some of the benchmarks when you drill down.
There was a time when compilers were compared using a well defined set of tests for a particular language. The end result was a lot of compilers that performed the test superbly well but often were less effective in real application. The thing which rather makes me inclined to take the resulted here with a little scepticism is the gaps in some of the tests. This is a bit of fun but I would query the methodological rigour of the test framework.
I'm still an advocate for ISO-standardized languages (C being my favorite), but I'm getting more friendly toward languages that have a free software implementation.
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