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Re:Ask HN: How to compare different programming languages by MichaelCrawford on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @10:13AM (#9764724)
Most modern computers have caches. On the whole they speed you up but some access patterns lead caches to slow you down. Some instruction set architectures have more registers than others.

So the fastest language also has to consider the hardware it is used on.

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Re:Ask HN: How to compare different programming languages by indoindo on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @10:29AM (#9764835)
Thank you very much! insightful comments!
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Re:Ask HN: How to compare different programming languages by MichaelCrawford on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @11:24AM (#9765242)
Some people just aren't very good coders. No language will make their programs run faster. What will are books like effective c++, effective java and refactoring.

The fastest language only makes sense when the code is written by an expert.

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