[DUG] delphi is fast-very fast

[Neven MacEwan]

Gary

Careful they didn't do C or C++
> HI all,
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> Not yet Friday, but here's an interesting post re the relative speeds 
> of Delphi to other languages such as C#, C++, Java, and PHP.
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> http://compaspascal.blogspot.com/2009/06/delphi-is-fast-very-fast.html
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> Here's a taste...
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> Delphi is fast, very fast
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> Jesper Hald and others recently did a benchmark of a certain algorithm 
> to figure out, which was fastest. It evolved into a kind of 
> competition to make the fastest algorithm to solve this problem:Fill a 
> data structure with 1,000,000 random, unsorted values from 0-100 Run 
> through this data structure 200 times, counting a) number of values = 
> 42 b) average for all 1,000,000*200 valuesThe benchmark was run on a 
> new T5800 Toshiba laptop running 32-bit Windows Vista. Nothing had 
> been done to the Vista to make it faster or behave in a special 
> way.The results were interesting, and our conclusions were:
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> ...
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> Gary
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