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by anubiann00b 4271 days ago
The run time seems to be outdated... Hasn't the JVM been updated and optimized since 2000?
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ElectronCharge 4270 days ago
Yes, a much more recent reference point is the Google benchmark featuring C++, Java, Scala and Go.

http://readwrite.com/2011/06/06/cpp-go-java-scala-performanc...

I'd love to see a few more languages included, Scheme and D being two. Scala had an impressive performance there, creaming Go in particular!

(Wow, it's amazing that paper is already three years old - time flies!)

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wtbob 4271 days ago
Yup. I'd really like to see the same comparison done today.
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ivanche 4271 days ago
Ditto. If JVM is good enough for, say, Twitter, it's sure that performance of Java programs got better and that "Run time" and "Final image size" from Figure 1 in OP pdf would look different. OTOH I'm not in the Lisp land but I guess there was probably some improvement there too.
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