[dundee] Java Benchmarks

[Iain Barnett]

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=all

Java is near the top on most of the tests, but most languages suffer  
from perception problems. "Perl is dead" is a classic, and just look  
at Ruby in the benchmarks but it gets all the cool press.

My money for the longterm is Lisp, Haskell, and Perl6 (if it ever  
gets finished! :)


Iain



On 8 Jul 2008, at 2:31 pm, James Le Cuirot wrote:

> On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 13:21:15 +0000 (GMT)
> Lee Hughes <toxicnaan at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Wow, welcome to java world.
>>
>> I've seen some interesting benchmarks from the new java.... shall
>> we convert the world to java... ?? I think we should...
>
> I've been doing a lot of work for the Gentoo Java team this past  
> month.
> I've rewritten the eclass I wrote a couple of years ago to build
> Eclipse plugins from source using Portage. That's involved bumping and
> adding a lot of other Java packages too. I haven't really written any
> Java since university but I think it's true to say that many of the
> Gentoo Java team only have a passing interest in the language  
> itself! I
> still like the language but I'm not sure what I would use it for at  
> the
> moment.
>
> James
>
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