From: Peter Hickman <peter@...>
Date: 2006-08-11T17:36:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Been there, done that - language shootout

Isaac Gouy wrote:
> Did you think others would be surprised?
> You seemed to think they were overlooking the "the degree of speed up"
> - why would you think that?
>
>   

Because when people state that performance is their priority and are 
told that C will give them the best performance they start to change 
their story. I realise that C is harder to program in than any scripting 
language but the stated requirement was performance so anything less is, 
well, less. Perhaps the problem is that people don't realise just how 
much of a boost C can give you and therefore see the effort involved 
being out of proportion to the expected results, this comes down to not 
knowing what performance boost you can get.