Every month or so I check out the state of programming languages here:
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/
Note the *huge* number of languages they show, as well as four test
environments: two with a single processor, and two with 4 processors.
I generally look at the single processor, 32 bit system:
http://tinyurl.com/azw448
The bold numbers in the middle of the columns are the medians, so
"representative".
As usual, Java seems to be doing fine. Surprised to see JRuby doing
better than vanilla Ruby, but a bit less than Ruby 1.9. They're neck
and neck, especially with the JRuby guys at Sun now. Javascript is in
the mix, just below python, and several new engines may get javascript
considerably faster.
-- Owen
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