/prog/ - Undeniable Proof that C++ is the Fastest*

Name: Anonymous 2011-06-15 2:52

Even Faster Than C!

http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/2076322/-winner-google-language-tests

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/which-programming-languages-are-fastest.php

And with C++0x/C++11, it's only going to get even faster due to constexpr, noexcept, and r-value references.

Garbage-collected languages don't stand a change against C++, what with their global heaps and thread serialization required to acquire heap locks. Only languages with manual-memory management can attempt to hold a torch to the glory of C++.

* ``Fastest'' being limited to the discussion of general purpose programming languages.

Name: Anonymous 2011-06-15 2:58

I laughed at FIOC, 41x slower when averaged out, than C++. At least Lisp and Haskell seem reasonable, only ~2x slower on average to C++.

Name: Anonymous 2011-06-15 3:05

Even Faster Than C!
No, someone just happened to submit test programs in C++ that were a little better optimized than the C ones for that site. And as expected, C and C++ are practically next to each other since C++ is little more than a superset of C.

Name: Anonymous 2011-06-15 3:38

>>2
Where the fuck does it mention any of those three languages?

Name: Anonymous 2011-06-15 5:20

I'm curious how fast are the commercial Lisp implementations (Allegro/LispWorks)? Erik Naggum said on comp.lang.lisp that they're very fast but he seemed insane so I won't take his word for it.

Name: Anonymous 2011-06-15 5:29

>>5
Probably comparable to SBCL and ClozureCL. At least at first glance, some of the code generated by some of them looked better than the average SBCL-generated code, however I do believe in performance benchmarks, some of them scored worse, despite the code looking more ``quality'' (just like MSVC generated code tends to look better than gcc generated code (for Windows), but at times gcc's code can be faster, although not always).

Name: Anonymous 2011-06-15 5:48

>>1
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/which-programming-languages-are-fastest.php
NOTHING IS AS FAST AS C! NOT EVEN C!

Name: Anonymous 2011-06-15 5:51

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=sbcl&lang2=racket
:(

Name: Anonymous 2011-06-15 5:54

>>2
You forgot to mention that ~~Haskall~~ can be compiled to machine code, while Python cannot. Regardless, it is still faster then PHP, Perl, and Ruby (which is slow as fuck).

Name: Anonymous 2011-06-15 6:21

>>9
say that to my custom ruby 1.9.1 implementation.

Name: Anonymous 2011-06-15 8:04

AS FAST AS C! VR^{^{^{^OO}O}O}^{O^{O^{O^O}}}M VR_{_{_{_OO}O}O}_{O_{O_{O_O}}}M

Name: Anonymous 2011-06-15 8:07

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=python3&lang2=cint
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=yarv&lang2=cint
C is slower than FIOC and Ruby.

Name: Anonymous 2011-06-15 8:09

>>4
See the second link.

Name: Anonymous 2011-06-15 8:48

So C++ is faster than C because it was in a benchmark where C was not tested? Does that mean that C is infinitely slow?

Name: Anonymous 2011-06-15 9:13

>>14
infinitely
JEWS DID C

Name: Anonymous 2011-06-15 9:24

>>14
You apparently didn't see the second link.

Name: Anonymous 2011-06-15 11:11

>>16
Perhaps I saw it but disregarded it as insignificant next to the power of the force.

Undeniable Proof that C++ is the Fastest*

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