SharkD wrote:
> There's one thing I've always been confused about. Are all compiled 
> languages equal in terms of performance?

Erm, no.

It depends how you write the program, it depends how good the compiler 
is (there may even be more than one of them), it depends on what the 
program is supposed to be doing in the first place, etc.

(E.g., if you're writing a program that's dominated by network latency, 
it makes little difference to performance which language you use. It 
might affect reliability, security or development cost, but not 
performance.)

In other words, "it depends". Certainly different languages and 
different language tools seem to have their strengths and weaknesses. 
Actually teasing out objective "facts" about such things is less easy.

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