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		brl on May 5, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The "C is Efficient" Language Fallacy > whereas one might expect "expensive bits optimized in C" There is no important difference in performance between C and Java according to http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/

wlievens on May 6, 2009 [–]

That all depends on the kind of code, of course.

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