C is fastest

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Wed Oct 14 14:45:00 UTC 2009


On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:39:31AM -0400, Darryl Moore wrote:
> That depends entirely on the situation. If you are building something
> that will be used internally, or will only be sold in small quantities,
> then the development cycle becomes the biggest component of the overall
> cost.

Then perhaps you should be using python, ocaml or haskall.  They all seem
to do very well whenever fast implementation of something is required.
ocaml and haskall do very well in competitions where time limits and
maintainability and improvements of code and functionality quickly
are needed.  java and C++ never so.  Even perl might be an OK option.

> If you are doing an embedded system that will be produced in large
> quantities, then production cost becomes the larger component and you
> need to reduce that by spending extra development time, fine tuning part
> selection and using the smallest processor you can get away with.

Internal programs have a tendancy to stick around forever being changed
again and again.

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