If you have time to waste: C++ or Java which one is faster

Okay. This one is just as useless argument as anyone could imagine: C++ or Java - which one is faster? The long discussion could be read from here. The original poster of the thread (Razii) came up with this idea of reading the whole bible verse by verse and sort it and write it back to disk using programs written in both Java & C++. In doing so he will compare the time taken by both Java & C++ programs. The (seemingly wrong) conclusion he came upto was that Java is faster than C++.

Let me give you my gist of it. I copied and pasted the same piece of code (and fixed the issue of including the iterator header file and dividing by 1000 to get the milliseconds) , and ran the same test in my Linux box. Well, almost always the C++ program was considerably faster than the Java program. Many a times my C++ program took only 50% of the time taken by the Java program. My Java version is "Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_14-b03)" and my g++ version is "g++ (GCC) 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-3)". I am running my experiments on Linux 2.6.9-42.13.ELsmp OS.

Again, this is only if you have some time to waste ... just the way I do ;-)

Have a happy weekend.

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