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.
Fastest programs in each programming language
There are 4 sets of up-to-date measurements. Click one of these
color-code links to see one benchmark for a particular OS/machine -
Ubuntu™ : Intel® Q6600® quad-core |
x64 Ubuntu™ : Intel® Q6600® quad-core |
x64 Ubuntu™ : Intel® Q6600® one core |
Ubuntu™ : Intel® Q6600® one core |
Compare fastest programs - programming languages Z to A
Smalltalk VisualWorks uniform reflective environment - real live objects
Scheme PLT statically-scoped properly tail-recursive dialect of lisp
Scala higher-order type-safe programming for jvm
Ruby MRI programmer fun - everything is an object scripting
Ruby JRuby everything is an object scripting for jvm
Ruby 1.9 the new Ruby
Python CPython uncluttered imperative programming plus objects
Python 3 the new Python
PHP scripts embedded in html, and much more
Perl server-side shell & cgi scripts
Pascal Free Pascal imperative programming plus objects
OCaml modular type-safe strict functional programming plus objects
Mozart/Oz multi-multi-multi-paradigm distributed programming
Lua LuaJIT jit compiler fully compatible with lua 5.1
Lua associative arrays for extensible embedded scripting
Lisp SBCL pioneering s-expression oriented programming
Lisaac everything is a prototype object plus design by contract
JavaScript V8 web-browser embedded scripting
JavaScript TraceMonkey ubiquitous web-browser embedded scripting
Java 6 steady state approximate jvm steady state
Java 6 -Xint ubiquitous bytecode interpreter virtual machine
Java 6 -server ubiquitous jit server virtual machine
Haskell GHC lazy pure functional programming
Go 6g 8g types just are - Go is an experiment
Fortran Intel pioneering numeric and scientific programming
F# Mono higher-order type-safe programming (mono is not ms .net)
Erlang HiPE concurrent real-time distributed fault-tolerant software
Clean lazy & strict pure functional programming
C++ GNU g++ c plus objects plus generics
C# Mono oo plus functional style (mono is not ms .net)
C GNU gcc unchecked low-level programming
ATS dependent types & linear types plus theorem proving
Ada 2005 GNAT large-scale safety-critical software
