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Comment by TheDong

No, it's not the only thing that matters. Java's compiled too and was included here, but Go still beat it out.

It's likely that C or Rust or C++ would be much faster than Java or Go since they have large runtime overheads; it turns out having a runtime and how heavy it is matter too, not just if it's compiled.

There are also cases where non-compiled languages can beat out compiled ones. For example, lua with LuaJIT is incredibly fast, and beats out compiled languages with heavy runtimes (like java/C#) in quite a few microbenchmarks.

parent TheDong 9 years ago

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