Not only way off topic, but meaningless as well. May as well have posted a link to a porn site.
There are still those who try to justify C/C++ because they are the fastest. Ruby and Python are trying to do much different things and are just scripts to organize the overall task. They aren't trying to be fast, just productive. Fact is, C is the biggest disaster ever in the industry. On 10 Dec 2010, at 03:56, Tom Woteki wrote: > Off topic but I thought readers here would find this interesting. Old news > for some of you, perhaps, but only now brought to my attention: > > http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/ > > It takes a bunch of implementations of algorithms in a bunch of languages and > it sees how fast they run on 4 architectures (AMD/Intel, 32/64bit) > > This graph shows that (for the implentations tested) C/C++ is fastest, Java > is a worthy second, Haskell a close third and Python and Ruby bringing up the > rear. > > Tom > > <chartbox.png> > > _______________________________________________ > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. > Webobjects-dev mailing list (Webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com) > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/ianjoyner%40me.com > > This email sent to ianjoy...@me.com _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list (Webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
