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These reports are worse than useless. Any person with good understanding of computing knows that implementation plays a huge part in it. Why people wasting thei

by chj 15y ago

These reports are worse than useless. Any person with good understanding of computing knows that implementation plays a huge part in it. Why people wasting their time comparing speed of different programming languages while they should focus on different implementations. I guess the latter one is difficult so people all try to avoid it, and the first one is just so easy to do and everybody is doing it.

wheaties 15y ago
That fact stands out immensely. The Scala code and java code should be equal as the first can be written exactly like the second. Don't even see Clojure. Hate to see what times they get there.
- verroq 15y ago
  Except Scala has no 'break' (that isn't a hack using exceptions), this makes imitating imperative style difficult and some syntaxical sugar should no doubt ensure that Scala will always be slower than Java.
- BindGuice 15y ago
  Clojure is there but where is clang?
  - igouy 15y ago
    clang is waiting for someone like you, who wants to spend their time building language implementations on the LLVM toolchain and measuring program runtimes - http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/demo2/which-programming-languages-are-fastest.php?llvmgcc=on&clang=on&java=on&ghc=on&csharp=on&fsharp=on http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/demo2/which-programming-la... http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/help.php#llvm http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/help.php#llvm
- igouy 15y ago
  What would be interesting about Scala programs written exactly like Java programs? Hint: If you want to check for some text on a web page, use page search.
verroq 15y ago
Sorry, but your Ruby code will never the same speed as C code, even if it is the same implementation. We'd all like to believe all programming languages are equal, but that's not the case.
dalke 15y ago
Which of course the web site freely acknowledges. At the bottom of that page states the real question is "Which of these programming language implementations have the fastest benchmark programs?"
- igouy 15y ago
  And at the top of that page ;-)

by chj 15y ago

wheaties 15y ago

That fact stands out immensely. The Scala code and java code should be equal as the first can be written exactly like the second. Don't even see Clojure. Hate to see what times they get there.

verroq 15y ago
Except Scala has no 'break' (that isn't a hack using exceptions), this makes imitating imperative style difficult and some syntaxical sugar should no doubt ensure that Scala will always be slower than Java.
BindGuice 15y ago
Clojure is there but where is clang?
- igouy 15y ago
  clang is waiting for someone like you, who wants to spend their time building language implementations on the LLVM toolchain and measuring program runtimes - http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/demo2/which-programming-languages-are-fastest.php?llvmgcc=on&clang=on&java=on&ghc=on&csharp=on&fsharp=on http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/demo2/which-programming-la... http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/help.php#llvm http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/help.php#llvm
igouy 15y ago
What would be interesting about Scala programs written exactly like Java programs? Hint: If you want to check for some text on a web page, use page search.

verroq 15y ago

Sorry, but your Ruby code will never the same speed as C code, even if it is the same implementation. We'd all like to believe all programming languages are equal, but that's not the case.

dalke 15y ago

Which of course the web site freely acknowledges. At the bottom of that page states the real question is "Which of these programming language implementations have the fastest benchmark programs?"

igouy 15y ago
And at the top of that page ;-)