Bulldozer00's Blog

I recently stumbled upon this interesting paper on programming language performance from Google researcher Robert Hundt : Loop Recognition in C++/Java/Go/Scala. You can read the details if you’d like, but here are the abstract, the conclusions, and a couple of the many performance tables in the report.

Abstract

Conclusions

Runtime Memory Footprint And Performance Tables

Of course, whenever you read anything that’s potentially controversial, consider the sources and their agendas. I am a C++ programmer.