Comments on: Visualizing language trade-offs http://therealadam.com/archive/2009/06/02/visualizing-language-trade-offs/ Polymath practicing programming, probably procrastinating Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:52:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Isaac Gouy http://therealadam.com/archive/2009/06/02/visualizing-language-trade-offs/comment-page-1/#comment-725 Isaac Gouy Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:37:14 +0000 http://therealadam.com/?p=603#comment-725 > a small graph that simultaneously shows the execution speed and program size aka scatter plot > It’s also great information design Scroll so the charts fill the browser. Now quickly which axis is execution speed and which axis is program size? Did you use what you already knew about languages to work that out? Does Mozart/Oz look like it should be in the same column as Java 6 -Xint ? How can we compare Ruby with PHP - most of the information seems to be off the chart? http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/shapes.php > a small graph that simultaneously shows the execution speed and program size

aka scatter plot

> It’s also great information design

Scroll so the charts fill the browser.

Now quickly which axis is execution speed and which axis is program size?

Did you use what you already knew about languages to work that out?

Does Mozart/Oz look like it should be in the same column as Java 6 -Xint ?

How can we compare Ruby with PHP - most of the information seems to be off the chart?

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/shapes.php

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