Dev Language Comparison

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Tue Sep 16 12:05:01 EDT 2003


xbury.cs at clearstream.com wrote:

> Surely execution speed will be an issue but development speed is also a big
> factor. 

Orders of magnitude greater efficiency in the development cycle, and not a
huge difference in speed for many operations.  Remember that 90% of the code
being executed in Rev is highly-optimized C++, with your scripts acting as a
glue between these compiled routines.   And as far as the scripts
themselves, Scott asserts that his bytecode is significantly more efficient
than Java, and certainly the subjective experience confirms that.

In a recent comparison on another list which deals with a allegedly compiled
lower-level language, a task was handed out as a comparson:  make an index
of all words in the New Testament.   In Rev it was seven lines that ran in 6
seconds.  In the lower-level language it was more than 50 lines and took 12
seconds.

I've had many reviewers assume WebMerge was written in C++, and their mostly
correct. :)

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