Darren New wrote:
> So saying that one language is faster than a completely different 
> language is one of those FUD overgeneralizations. 

Oh, and as another example, COBOL. It's much faster to do stuff like decimal 
math and print formatting in COBOL (where it's built in) than C, especially 
if your processor has instructions for it.

Plus, many processors these days are built for C and are hard to change. 
Back when people were loading microcode themselves, machines running LISP or 
Smalltalk were quite fast compared to those machines running C with the same 
instruction set. It's more like "modern instruction sets favor C-like 
languages" than anything else.

Stuff like dynamic dispatch in objects could be individual CISC instructions 
and greatly speed things up, for example.

I'm also not sure if some of the Java hardware dosn't run Java faster than 
it would run C.

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