Owen Densmore wrote:
Every month or so I check out the state of programming languages here:
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/
Note that in the best performing benchmarks, the GHC Haskell compiler
matches GNU C++ and beats Java and on other tests and platforms is
within a factor of two of Java.
Of course, what we are talking about here is for the most part compiler
investments, not mathematical properties of languages. If the measure
for `optimizability' was by the language itself, th languages like
Haskell, Scheme, Clean, OCaml, F# etc. would win hands down.
What's to become of Java now that Oracle has eaten Sun?
Marcus
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