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How efficient is your favorite language?

July 07th, 2006 | Category: tech

By Justin Silverton

How does you favorite language compare? Below is the results of a series of tests performed on various programming languages. The weights of each specific test are listed in the second chart below.

Language	Implementation	Score	Missing	Failing	Avg.Score
Delphi	*delphi*	553	7	0	30.72
C	vc	665	2	1	30.23
C	*bcc*	665	3	0	30.23
Ocaml	*ocaml*	665	0	3	30.23
C	*lcc*	663	3	0	30.14
C	*mingw32*	663	1	2	30.14
Mercury	*mercury*	475	7	2	29.69
C	*gcc*	674	0	2	29.30
Lua	lua5	638	2	1	29.00
Ocaml	ocamlb	630	0	3	28.64
Java	*java*	710	0	0	28.40
Forth	gforth	595	1	3	28.33
SML	*smlnj*	479	0	8	28.18
Lua	lua	648	2	0	28.17
Pike	pike	675	0	1	28.13
Ada	*gnat*	447	8	1	27.94
Eiffel	se	502	5	2	27.89
Nice	*nice*	556	5	0	27.80
Common Lisp	poplisp	389	0	11	27.79
Pascal	*fpascal*	305	8	6	27.73
C++	*vc++*	442	5	4	27.63
Pascal	*vpascal*	465	8	0	27.35
C#	*csharp*	574	4	0	27.33
Python	python	648	0	1	27.00
Pliant	pliant	539	4	1	26.95
S-Lang	slang	505	6	0	26.58
ICI	ici	610	0	2	26.52
Icon	icon	422	9	0	26.38
Modula-2	*modula2*	209	15	2	26.13
Perl	cygperl	595	0	2	25.87
Awk	*awka*	484	6	0	25.47
Awk	mawk	483	6	0	25.42
ElastiC	elastic	151	16	3	25.17
Oz	oz	423	6	2	24.88
Perl	perl	560	0	2	24.35
Haskell	*ghc*	364	4	6	24.27
Forth	*bigforth*	239	9	6	23.90
Parrot	parrot	238	14	1	23.80
Erlang	erlang	319	3	8	22.79
Modula-3	*modula3*	109	20	0	21.80
Awk	gawk	391	6	1	21.72
Tcl	tcl	426	3	2	21.30
PHP	php	294	9	2	21.00
Simula	*cim*	104	20	0	20.80
Scheme	guile	418	0	4	19.90
JavaScript	jscript	236	10	2	18.15
Ruby	ruby	356	0	4	16.95
Rexx	rexx	202	7	4	14.43
VBScript	vbscript	145	5	7	11.15
REBOL	rebol	0	18	7	0.00
Languages that compile to native code are in Bold Italics.

Weights used for the scorecard
Test	Weight	Test	Weight
Ackermann’s Function	1	Array Access	3
Count Lines/Words/Chars	3	Echo Client/Server	5
Exception Mechanisms	1	Fibonacci Numbers	2
Hash (Associative Array) Access	1	Hashes, Part II	4
Heapsort	4	Hello World	1
List Operations	3	Matrix Multiplication	3
Method Calls	5	Nested Loops	4
Object Instantiation	5	Producer/Consumer Threads	1
Random Number Generator	3	Regular Expression Matching	4
Reverse a File	4	Sieve of Erathostenes	4
Spell Checker	4	Statistical Moments	2
String Concatenation	2	Sum a Column of Integers	3
Word Frequency Count	5