Thread: C is ssssslooooowing me

So it's now clear that C# is the fastest, Java the next and so on and hence forth until C++ which is the slowest.

Originally Posted by JFonseka

So it's now clear that C# is the fastest, Java the next and so on and hence forth until C++ which is the slowest.

Other way around

Originally Posted by JFonseka

So it's now clear that C# is the fastest, Java the next and so on and hence forth until C++ which is the slowest.

C++ is one of the fastest portable languages you can get - obviously, as with all benchmarking, you can get other winners occassionally (particularly for situations where a language is written with some particular purpose in mind, and optimized for such).

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Mats

Originally Posted by matsp

C++ is one of the fastest portable languages you can get - obviously, as with all benchmarking, you can get other winners occassionally (particularly for situations where a language is written with some particular purpose in mind, and optimized for such).

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Mats

I was kidding matsp, Elysia got it :P

Originally Posted by JFonseka

I was kidding matsp, Elysia got it :P

Of course I understood. My comment wasn't meant to point out or be serious

Originally Posted by manav

The ordering is absolutely correct!
Fastest to Slowest in terms of developer time, and, no, not the user time!

Hahahaha, where does that put Microsoft? =D

The secret's out

I once found an article saying that Microsoft has 160 programmers :|
Is that true? Where would that put Microsoft? In the bottom? I mean, 160, for all of their projects?
But Microsoft is known for slow, buggy, incredibly complex programs. I'd definitely put Microsoft at the bottom!

Originally Posted by Elysia

I once found an article saying that Microsoft has 160 programmers :|
Is that true? Where would that put Microsoft? In the bottom? I mean, 160, for all of their projects?
But Microsoft is known for slow, buggy, incredibly complex programs. I'd definitely put Microsoft at the bottom!

The company I work for has MANY more than 160 programmers [1], in fact the department I work for is mostly programmers, and we're 80 or so - perhaps 50 or so programmers. The whole company has about 1000 employees, and probably about 70+% are programmers.

[1] That obviously depends on what you imply by the title programmer as well - I count all manner of people working in software engineering writing code - "People who write code". They may well have other titles, e.g. Senior Software Engineer, Software Developer, Test Development Engineer, Software Contractor, Technical Lead or any other of many titles that could be used for these rolls. It could be that the 160 programmer figure is that there are 160 people in MS with the exact title of "Programmer".

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Mats

There are probably 1000's of programmers in Microsoft, if not more. There is no way there is 160 unless there are 100 hours in a day

Maybe that's why it takes 5-6 years to build a crap OS like Vista that has no new improvements?

Originally Posted by Elysia

Maybe that's why it takes 5-6 years to build a crap OS like Vista that has no new improvements?

Vista is the most legendary thing since sliced bread. It's just you need experts to understand the wizardry in there, experts like me.

Oh yeah, forgot to add: "and an OS that breaks 99% of the things or 99% of the things don't work as they should."

Originally Posted by Elysia

Oh yeah, forgot to add: "and an OS that breaks 99% of the things or 99% of the things don't work as they should."

101% of the things in Vista work for me. That extra 1% includes things to be released in the future which I'm sure will work, after hours of tweaking, replaced monitors and added RAM.

Pick the language that suits your needs and you feel most comfortable with, and don't worry about speed unless you utterly absolutely have to (which I doubt you do).