>> I thinks it's very difficult to outperform C since C really is just >> about at the level of assembly language. > > No, in special cases it's not that hard to outperform C, because the > language spec dictates some not so efficient details. C has an ABI and > it's specification is optimized for the general case.
Stefan, judging by this site (which I posted some links from yesterday) your intuition is correct: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/ Overall C comes in 2nd, 10% slower than C++ (due to extra hints to the compiler I assume). But C/C++ are not the top of every benchmark. E.g. http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=sumcol&lang=all Darren -- Darren Cook http://dcook.org/mlsn/ (English-Japanese-German-Chinese free dictionary) http://dcook.org/work/ (About me and my work) http://dcook.org/work/charts/ (My flash charting demos) _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
