On Thursday, 19 September 2013 at 08:26:03 UTC, Russel Winder
wrote:
Java is no longer under-performant compared to C, C++, Fortran,
D, Go, Rust. Check the benchmarks.
Interesting. Java people have been saying this for years and
it's never been quite true, so I just looked up the benchmark
shootout to see if you're right. It shows Java 7 doing pretty
well against C++ these days, roughly equivalent speed or at worst
half as fast:
http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=java&data=u64q
I'd still never use it as I hate how verbose Java is, but it's
intriguing to see that they've tightened it up. Of course, all
the usual caveats apply, as these benchmarks are not necessarily
representative, might have been gamed, blah, blah, blah...
