Linked by Christopher W. Cowell-Shah on Thu 8th Jan 2004 19:33 UTC
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.
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My results for mingw (instead of cygwin) on my athlon xp 2.4
(i just felt like i should test it
Start C benchmark
Int arithmetic elapsed time: 6125 ms with intMax of 1000000000
i: 1000000001
intResult: 1
Double arithmetic elapsed time: 5687 ms with doubleMin 10000000000.000000, doubleMax 11000000000.000000
i: 11000000000.000000
doubleResult: 10011632717.388229
Long arithmetic elapsed time: 20016 ms with longMin 10000000000, longMax 11000000000
i: 11000000000
longResult: 776627965
Trig elapsed time: 6750 ms with max of 10000000
i: 10000000.000000
sine: 0.990665
cosine: -0.136322
tangent: -7.267119
logarithm: 7.000000
squareRoot: 3162.277502
I/O elapsed time: 5484 ms with max of 1000000
last line: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz12345678 90abcdefgh
Total elapsed time: 44062 ms
Stop C benchmark
Great article btw.