On 14 Feb 2012, at 09:41, Stefan Marr wrote:
While you are at it, add PHP and Ruby into your benchmarks. You will see that the memory consumption of PHP is just outrageous. And the speed of Ruby is legendary... to humor me, please use Ruby 1.8 and compare it to 1.9.
Look at what people write about production setups for these languages. Your approach just doesn't scale. The bottom line is, the quality of the language implementation for real-world applications just does not matter at all. People developed the right tools for the job...
Stefan, you are absolutely 100% right: Ruby, Python, PHP, Perl, JavaScript are successful and scale well even though they often have less efficient runtimes than Smalltalk. Choosing a language in which you are productive is a better strategy. Sven