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		Aurornis 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Programming language speed comparison using Leibni... The file I/O is probably irrelevant, but the startup time is not. The differences among the really fast languages are probably in different startup times if I had to guess.

igouy 4 months ago | [–]

What if we try to measure rather than guess :-)

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

pizlonator 4 months ago | [–]

> differences among the really fast languages are probably in different startup times

Startup times matter a great deal.

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