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On Tue, 2015-07-07 at 20:38 +0100, Chris Smith (space DOT dandy AT icloud DOT com)
[via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> Is it really that those languages have become faster, or is it simply
> that the advances in CPU processing power means that the differences
> between them are drowned out by other bottlenecks, like IO? I wonder
> if you'd get similar results if these languages were benchmarked on a
> 486?

I really think that the results are not determined by other bottlenecks,
at least I have never heard about that. There seems to be really great
advances in all that computer language design techniques in the last 10
years. Ten years  ago I read everywhere that compiling high level
languages like Python or Ruby to native assembler code would be nearly
impossible. Now we have Crystal, which is very Ruby like, developed in
few years from a small group in Argentinia. Or Julia, similar to Matlab,
but fast as C -- not always. And Java, considered slow 20 Years ago, now
faster than C in some cases. I don't know much about language
development unfortunately. CLang with LLVM seems to have contributed
much to that development. Research for all the Academic languages too.
For Java I read that companies have invested gigantic amount of man
power to increase speed.