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- Subject: Re: Nice performance quote
- From: David Given <dg@...>
- Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 01:11:32 +0100
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Matthew M. Burke wrote:
> I stumbled across the following article about scripting languages:
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> http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/04/16/16FEscriptinglimits_1.html
Quotation:
| Java runs at 1.8 times the speed of compiled C; Lua (using a JIT compiler),
| at 3 times; Python, at 6.7 times; PHP, at 7 times; Perl, at 9.8 times; and
| Ruby, at 16 times.
Can anyone else spot the subtle flaw in this statement?
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