
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.
The VB IO component of the benchmark uses the backwards compatibility routines to do IO -- routines which were never intended for performance. The correct way to IO in VB is to use the StreamReader and StreamWriter classes in the .NET frameworks.