Benchmarks
Bench++ - how good is your compiler? Joe Orost of AT&T Research has built a C++ compiler benchmark suite based on the Ada PIWG suite. It is thus designed to test individual language features, with some small applications and "traditional" benchmarks thrown in. (Jul 1998)
Java Speed Tests Benchmarks of Java and C++ arithmetic matrix computations. The results may be shocking. (Nov 1999)
OOPACK - benchmark C vs. C++ Is OOP-style programming worth the implicit extra performance overhead? Decide for yourself! (Jul 1998)
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