Language comparisons

[Grant Edwards]

In article <13ghftgdda4nsieesjkj8i2pokth49p03c at 4ax.com>, Courageous wrote:

>And you're wrong about one thing: C's not as easy to guess where
>the time goes as one might think. 

I think it depends on the environment.  My back ground is in
embedded systems where it's 100% user-written-code.  In that
environment there are no black-box I/O libraries or memory
allocation routines being called.  For normally hosted
applications my observation is probably not true.

>The moral of the story: one must always profile.

Agreed.

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