Which programming language is fastest?

Posted by tosh on Thursday May 14, 2026 @01:24PM
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Re:Which programming language is fastest? by abstractspoon on Friday May 15, 2026 @03:16AM (#48145512)

Whichever one the tests are designed for

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Re:Which programming language is fastest? by igouy on Friday May 15, 2026 @01:20PM (#48151292)

There'll be more than one that fits the tests.

Some people notice these are tiny tiny programs which have nothing to say about servers "expected to run without issue for at least a day".

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Re:Which programming language is fastest? by chrism238 on Friday May 15, 2026 @03:56AM (#48145785)

As the article says - languages aren’t fast, their implementations are fast.

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Re:Which programming language is fastest? by igouy on Friday May 15, 2026 @01:10PM (#48151166)

Then we can skip ahead: language implementations aren't fast, programs are fast.

And skip again: "Fastest" contributed programs, grouped by programming language implementation.

Now we've cut-through, is there anything else to be said?

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