Timeline for What determines the "speed" of a programming language?
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| Apr 14, 2015 at 17:33 | comment | added | Rob | "Speed" is an ambiguous term. In many contexts it is in reference to "throughput" (work per time period - with no response time guarantees). In other contexts it is in terms of latency (response time - regardless of throughput). In other contexts, it has to do with how easy it is to throw more processors at a single problem (beat an optimized C program with an easily written Java program that runs across thousands of machines). | |
| Apr 13, 2015 at 23:38 | answer | added | johni | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 23, 2015 at 6:57 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackCompSci/status/579899639052312576 | ||
| Mar 22, 2015 at 3:01 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Mar 16, 2015 at 19:00 | comment | added | superluminary | As above. The languages don't generate the same byte code. Some languages are easier to parse into byte code. Some have a higher level of abstraction. | |
| Mar 15, 2015 at 19:34 | answer | added | supercat | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 15, 2015 at 15:47 | comment | added | Nick T | Implementation aside, "speed" is ambiguous, there are different speeds for implementing, compiling, executing, and debugging, and you're generally going to be trading off some for the others (otherwise we would all be using the programming language) | |
| Mar 14, 2015 at 18:11 | answer | added | Archimedes Trajano | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 14, 2015 at 17:22 | vote | accept | Rodrigo Valente | ||
| Mar 14, 2015 at 15:21 | history | edited | Raphael | CC BY-SA 3.0 | deleted 102 characters in body; edited title |
| Mar 14, 2015 at 14:38 | answer | added | Jonas Stein | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 14, 2015 at 14:13 | history | rollback | babou | Rollback to Revision 2 | |
| Mar 14, 2015 at 13:31 | comment | added | David Richerby | @Raphael I feel it's off-topic, unclear and much too broad. While the topic is better suited to Software Engineering, I suspect it would be closed as "too broad" there. | |
| Mar 14, 2015 at 13:18 | history | edited | Raphael | CC BY-SA 3.0 | deleted 41 characters in body; edited title |
| Mar 14, 2015 at 12:18 | history | edited | David Richerby | edited tags | |
| Mar 14, 2015 at 11:22 | answer | added | babou | timeline score: 27 | |
| Mar 14, 2015 at 8:25 | comment | added | Juho | Languages are just a notion one uses to write programs, so you can't really talk about the speed of a language. | |
| Mar 14, 2015 at 3:13 | answer | added | vzn | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 13, 2015 at 23:29 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Mar 13, 2015 at 23:11 | comment | added | svick | If one program is faster than another one, it means they can't have the same byte code. | |
| Mar 13, 2015 at 20:59 | answer | added | Yuval Filmus | timeline score: 16 | |
| Mar 13, 2015 at 20:50 | answer | added | M a m a D | timeline score: 5 | |
| Mar 13, 2015 at 20:20 | history | asked | Rodrigo Valente | CC BY-SA 3.0 |