
This article discusses a small-scale benchmark test run on nine modern computer languages or variants:
Java 1.3.1,
Java 1.4.2, C compiled with
gcc 3.3.1,
Python 2.3.2, Python compiled with
Psyco 1.1.1, and the four languages supported by Microsoft's
Visual Studio .NET 2003 development environment:
Visual Basic,
Visual C#,
Visual C++, and
Visual J#. The benchmark tests arithmetic and trigonometric functions using a variety of data types, and also tests simple file I/O. All tests took place on a Pentium 4-based computer running Windows XP.
Update: Delphi version of the benchmark
here.
.. Any chance of trying the intel and the openwatcom compilers?
.. It would also be interesting to try the benchmarks on another operating system to see if the same level of differences are observed.