[fpc-other] Which programming language is fastest?

[Isaac Gouy]

--- On Mon, 5/9/11, Jonas Maebe <jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be> wrote:


> I think all Mattias was trying to say is that even if you
> compare the single core C++ version to the single code
> Pascal version the C++ version is still 5 times faster than
> the Pascal version (i.e., the speed difference cannot only
> be explained by the fact that the C++ version has been
> parallelized and the Pascal version not).


Thank you for helping to clarify that point - I think my initial comment was that not having Pascal programs written for multi core "has increased the performance difference".

k-nucleotide 5x -> 17x
spectral-norm 2x -> 7x
binary-trees 2x -> 7x