Can anyone explain why C++ beats out C so clearly?
Which programming language or compiler is faster
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Re: Which programming language or compiler is faster
#12This is a really strange benchmark to use. Compiler speed is not an issue for these 100ish line standalone benchmarks. The question is how fast it is for a million-line project or worse. I doubt c or c++ do good there with their header file includes for dependencies.
I am sure if someone contributed a million line project for every language they would be happy to benchmark it.
Re: Which programming language or compiler is faster
#13What matters to me is incremental build time. Rarely do I compule a big program in its entirety from scratch. I don't use Unison but I would love to for this reason.
Jonathan Blow's new language compiler does not do incremental builds yet builds large projects extremely quickly (a few seconds).
Re: Which programming language or compiler is faster
#14The faster programming language or compiler is the one you use. Always.
Re: Which programming language or compiler is faster
#15What does it even mean for a language to be faster?
Re: Which programming language or compiler is faster
#16Julia always seems to rank #1 or close to it when compared to other interpreted languages but I only ever see it used for research and math. Why doesn’t anyone use it for anything else?
Re: Which programming language or compiler is faster
#17The faster programming language or compiler is the one you use. Always.
...I wish this were true. I'm back writing JavaScript/Typescript. The new build tools are great. Perhaps in the new year I'll convert some of these repos to build with esbuild or swc... or vite.
Re: Which programming language or compiler is faster
#18Those are two very different questions.
Re: Which programming language or compiler is faster
#19Julia always seems to rank #1 or close to it when compared to other interpreted languages but I only ever see it used for research and math. Why doesn’t anyone use it for anything else?
I think founder effects. It started in the math and science community so that's where most of the library-writing energy has gone into.
Re: Which programming language or compiler is faster
#20Julia always seems to rank #1 or close to it when compared to other interpreted languages but I only ever see it used for research and math. Why doesn’t anyone use it for anything else?
I think it competes with R, which has a similar usage profile