On Friday 07 September 2001 11:08 pm, Sterin, Ilya wrote:
> Actually there were some tests done, can't recall where now, though by a
> trusted source. I will be digging it up in my email and emailing it to the
> list. There were a few languages tested including Perl, C, C++, Java
> (can't remember if Python was there). Perl came in in second place after
> C. Yes, that's faster than C++. Again, I totally understand that a lot
> of it is dependent on what's being tested, which I couldn't recall at this
> time either, though I believe to recall that it was some general stuff.
IIRC, Dr. Dobb's reported a similar (if not the same) test a couple years
ago. However, they speculated a known bug in the MFC for the C++ test is
what caused it to be slower. They were doing textual processing, and C,
Perl, and awk, I believe, were pretty quick, with the problematic C++ in the
middle, and Java significantly slower.
But that was then...
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Bryan C. Warnock
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