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Which language would you have preferred? Most other languages where such bugs would be handleded by the language tend to be a lot slower. (I'm saying that as a
by Mithaldu 13y ago
Which language would you have preferred? Most other languages where such bugs would be handleded by the language tend to be a lot slower. (I'm saying that as a Perl developer who occasionally has to write C because Perl won't cut it for a decent algorithm.)
- rayiner 13y agoThere are a host of languages > 20% as fast as C (Common Lisp, Haskell, Java). I would have preferred Common Lisp but would have settled for Java. Once you're within a factor of 2-3 of C, speed rapidly becomes less important than other things except in limited circumstances. I wouldn't write an h264 decoder in Lisp, but short of that...
- Mithaldu 13y agoAh, thanks for the answer. I was mostly curious since i work with things where algorithms need to perform in realtime, so even a factor of 2-3 is unacceptable.