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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... -- Bryan C. Warnock bwarnock@capita.comThread Previous | Thread Next