Benchmarking programming languages?
How can we benchmark a programming language?
We can't - we benchmark programming language implementations.
How can we benchmark language implementations?
We can't - we measure particular programs.
Programming language performance comparisons
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Programming language measurements A to Z
*Java 6 steady state approximate jvm steady state
Ada 2005 GNAT large-scale safety-critical software
ATS dependent types & linear types plus theorem proving
BASIC FreeBASIC quickbasic compatible imperative programming Gentoo
C CINT seamless c c++ interpreter compiler Gentoo
C Cyclone safe dialect of c Debian
C GNU gcc unchecked low-level programming
C Intel unchecked low-level programming Gentoo
C Tiny unchecked low-level programming Debian
C# Mono oo plus functional style (mono is not ms .net)
C++ GNU g++ c plus objects plus generics
C++ Intel c plus objects plus generics Gentoo
CAL lazy functional programming for jvm Gentoo
Clean lazy & strict pure functional programming
D Digital Mars c++ reduced and simplified Gentoo
D GNU c++ reduced and simplified Debian
Dylan Gwydion multi-method oo programming Debian
Eiffel SmartEiffel everything is an object plus design by contract Gentoo
Erlang HiPE concurrent real-time distributed fault-tolerant software
F# Mono higher-order type-safe programming (mono is not ms .net)
Forth bigForth extensible postfix stack programming Gentoo
Forth GNU GForth extensible postfix stack programming Gentoo
Fortran G95 pioneering numeric and scientific programming Gentoo
Fortran Intel pioneering numeric and scientific programming
Groovy “agile” “dynamic” “java compatible” for jvm
Haskell GHC lazy pure functional programming
Icon high-level string processing Gentoo
Io everything is a prototype object minimalism Gentoo
Java 1.4 -server ubiquitous jit server virtual machine Gentoo
Java 6 -client ubiquitous jit client virtual machine Gentoo
Java 6 -server ubiquitous jit server virtual machine
Java 6 -Xint ubiquitous bytecode interpreter virtual machine
Java 6 -Xms64m initial java server heap size 64m Gentoo
Java GNU gcj optimizing ahead-of-time compiler Gentoo
JavaScript JavaScriptCore WebKit-based ECMA scripting implementation Debian
JavaScript Rhino web-browser to jvm scripting Gentoo
JavaScript SpiderMonkey ubiquitous web-browser embedded scripting Gentoo
JavaScript TraceMonkey ubiquitous web-browser embedded scripting
Lisaac everything is a prototype object plus design by contract
Lisp SBCL pioneering s-expression oriented programming
Lua associative arrays for extensible embedded scripting
Lua LuaJIT jit compiler fully compatible with lua 5.1
Matlab GNU Octave linear and nonlinear problems and numerical experiments Debian
Mercury first order logic & types & modes Gentoo
Mozart/Oz multi-multi-multi-paradigm distributed programming
Nice multi-method type-safe oo for jvm Gentoo
Oberon-2 OO2C modular programming plus objects Gentoo
Objective-C GNU c plus a thin layer of smalltalk Debian
OCaml modular type-safe strict functional programming plus objects
OCaml (bytecode) modular type-safe strict functional programming plus objects Debian
Parrot PIR intermediate code for parrot byte code or parrot asm Debian
Pascal Free Pascal imperative programming plus objects
Perl server-side shell & cgi scripts
PHP scripts embedded in html, and much more
Pike explicitly-typed dynamic oo programming Gentoo
Prolog SWI goal-oriented pattern-matching rules and facts Gentoo
Prolog YAP goal-oriented pattern-matching rules and facts Gentoo
Python uncluttered imperative programming plus objects
Python 3 the new Python
Python IronPython scripting for .net (mono is not ms .net) Gentoo
Python Psyco representation-based just-in-time specialization Gentoo
Python pypy Python in Python
Rebol metadata scripting for distributed computing Gentoo
Rexx Regina historic - originally ibm - scripting Debian
Ruby programmer fun - everything is an object scripting
Ruby 1.9 the new Ruby
Ruby JRuby everything is an object scripting for jvm
S-Lang embeddable extension language Debian
Scala higher-order type-safe programming for jvm
Scheme Bigloo statically-scoped properly tail-recursive dialect of lisp Debian
Scheme Chicken translate scheme source to portable c code Gentoo
Scheme Ikarus R6RS compatible incremental compiler Gentoo
Scheme PLT statically-scoped properly tail-recursive dialect of lisp
Smalltalk GNU uniform reflective environment - for scripting Gentoo
Smalltalk Squeak uniform reflective environment - real live objects Gentoo
Smalltalk VisualWorks uniform reflective environment - real live objects
SML MLton whole-program optimizing compiler Gentoo
SML SML/NJ modular type-safe strict functional programming Gentoo
Tcl everything is a string - programmable programming Gentoo
Zonnon Mono active objects (mono is not ms .net) Gentoo
