The Computer Language
25.03 Benchmarks Game

Measured : Which programming language is fastest?


… and the computer language benchmarks game are examples of micro benchmarks. These are easy to use, easy to measure, but far from realistic. They are nonetheless valuable tools.

My question is if anyone here has any experience with simplistic benchmarking and could tell me which things to test for in order to get a simple idea of each language's general performance?

Programs sorted-by measurement


Insignificant io

Significant io

[ Contentious. Different approaches & libraries. ]

Fastest grouped-by language implementation


Explore the program measurements with box plot charts — medians, dispersion, skew.


Benchmark program elapsed seconds compared to the fastest for more programming language implementations.

A versus B program measurements


Side-by-side comparison tables for the most popular searches.

What-if programs were more similar?

More Measurements & Comparisons

Concern has been expressed that short labels (like Java) demonstrate a confusion between programming language and language implementation. These short labels are just short. Each refers to a specific version of a programming language implementation.