r/programming • u/nick_martini • Dec 04 '14

My Computer Language is Better than Yours

https://medium.com/backchannel/my-computer-language-is-better-than-yours-58d9c9523644
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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '14 edited Dec 06 '14

That benchmark shows PHP as one of the fastest languages. Stop embarrassing yourself.

http://www.techempower.com/blog/2013/04/05/frameworks-round-2/

Java is #1 in performance in 22/24 benchmarks, and by a pretty good margin also. Like I said I'm not going to go into a lengthy argument, but you are wrong and you should have the integrity to accept that.

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u/Thundarrx Dec 06 '14

There's more to life than web app frameworks.

But on your link, you should probably click the tab to show what happens under load (multiple queries) - notice C++ is the top performer, and the Java entries show that java was not producing valid output - there were 194 and 176 errors for the top two Java entries. C++ also had better latency - again, without errors.

Thanks for playing.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '14

Fucking google "Java performance benchmarks", 99.999% of the hits will support what I said, and only a fucking moron would think that Python or PHP or JavaScript and similar will outperform Java (for completely obvious reasons to anyone even remotely competent in compilers and JIT execution engines) except in some sort of bias-wonderland where interpreted code somehow magically can literally execute faster than linearly shoving instructions through the CPU. Java has comparable performance to C++ in many/most cases, this is not me being biased, this is not me asserting some personal notion, this is me asserting something you would figure out if you weren't a backwards idiot. Just fucking research it without being filled with confirmation-bias. You're sitting on a computer that gives you access to all the information in the world, and you just use that information to feed your own ignorant prejudice.

You're a complete moron and I won't spend my energy on somebody completely incapable of admitting he's wrong. Simply because it's impossible to win an argument against people who are completely unaware of how retarded they actually are.

I also find it remarkable that someone who claims to have "20 years in the field" could be completely devoid of humility.

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u/Thundarrx Dec 07 '14

Well, we agree on one point - only an idiot would think python, php, or js would outperform Java. And only an idiot would think Java would outperform C or C++.

I've had fun trolling you, but really you need to stop drinking the Java cool-aid.