Dart - I see it mentioned (and perf looks impressive), but is it widely adopted?
Also, would have loved to see LuaJIT (interpreted lang) & Crystal (static Ruby like language) included just for comparison sake.
Also, would have loved to see LuaJIT (interpreted lang) & Crystal (static Ruby like language) included just for comparison sake.
Nearly 25 years ago, nested loops and fibs.
https://web.archive.org/web/20010424150558/http://www.bagley...
https://web.archive.org/web/20010124092800/http://www.bagley...
It's been a long time since the benchmarks game showed those.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Bak_(computer_programme...
It was stuck with a bad rep for being the language that was never going to replace JavaScript in the browser, and then was merely a transpiler no one was going to use, before it found a new life as the language for Flutter, which has driven a lot of its syntax and semantics improvements since, with built-in VM support for extremely efficient object templating (used by the reactive UI framework).
Perhaps the tiny tiny programs none-the-less took enough time that startup was amortized.
On x86_64 I expect the numbers would have been much closer and within measurement error. The top half is within 0.5-0.59s - there really isn't much you can do inside such a loop, almost nothing happens there.
As Isaac pointed out in a sibling comment - it's best to pick specific microbenchmarks, a selection of languages and implementations that interest you and dissect those - it will tell you much more.
It's fast and flexible.