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On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 04:39:29PM -0400, Dave McGuire (mcguire AT neurotica DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> On 07/07/2015 03:38 PM, Chris Smith (space DOT dandy AT icloud DOT com) [via
> geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> >> The new languages are fast! Very fast! I have seen many benchmarks,
> >> micro and real life. D, Rust, Nim are very close to C generally. There
> >> may be a few exceptions, but generally that can be fixed with minimal
> >> rewriting of the code. And Crystal and Julia are really fast although.
> >> Go is generally a bit slower. Even Java is very very fast today, but is
> >> limited by the startup time for the VM of course. 
> > 
> > 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?
> 
>   If all developers were forced to test their code on very slow
> machines, the world would be a much happier place.  Yet another reason
> why I moved from server-side development entirely into embedded
> firmware, where code performance still matters.
> 

Fˇully agreed. These days, they also should be forced to use
non-SSD systems for tests (simply strace -e open any "modern"
application, that's disgusting).

    Gabriel