Where do people get this idea that C and/or C++ represent a theoretical boundary of maximum performance, and nothing can be faster?
@jacksonchen666 It isn't at all though!
would be cool if there was a project with a bunch of common algorithms or programs and average performance comparisons between languages to compare them.
also differentiate between runtime and compile time. if compiling takes long, then prototyping /iterating takes longer too.
@serapath @jacksonchen666 That already exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Computer_Language_Benchmarks_Game
The problem is that the data is completely useless for any practical purpose, because real-world performance bottlenecks are basically never in the things being tested, and often aren't even computationally bound to begin with
@joepie91 they think computers run C
@joepie91 Geen idee, maar wie stelt dat dan?
@marvado Een hoop mensen. Ik kwam het net weer tegen in de documentatie voor een andere taal (Vale), maar het is bij lange na niet de eerste keer dat ik dit hoor.
@joepie91 Ja, ik hoor het ook weleens. Maar het ligt er maar aan waar je het toepast denk ik dan. LB.
@joepie91 people think that abstraction is necessarily slow and requires some kind of runtime translation of intent into action, and therefore the lowest-level language which has the least abstraction, where you can only specify action rather than intent, is the fastest possible language
@joepie91 I still kind of have that and... I don't know
being "closer" to assembly?