http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5602&page=3 (http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5602&page=3)
Quote from: Grok on January 09, 2004, 12:22 PM
http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5602&page=3 (http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5602&page=3)
I kind of have to question whether that guy has any clue about what he's doing, though. He seemed to be totally lost on the concept of managed C++ vs unmanaged C++ for VC.NET, for instance...
Hmm, so VB owns interpreted/byte code languages? Not very surprising. It's still twice as slow as C++... And his I/O test of writing lines to a text file is a rather bad test of I/O performance. He probably didn't use large buffers and overlapped I/O, which are performance enhancements easier accessible from C++ than from VB (that's to say they're very hard to use in VB compared to in C++)...
lol, one of my housemates applied for an internship at that company... :)
Python's float math is so terrible, don't even get me started.
EDIT: changed long to float