Abstract
The selection of the computer language to adopt is usually driven by intuition and expertise, since it is very diffcult to compare languages taking into account all their characteristics. In this paper, we analyze the effciency of programming languages through Data Envelopment Analysis. We collected the input data fromThe Computer Language Benchmarks Game: we consider a large set of languages in terms of computational time, memory usage, and source code size. Various benchmark problems are tackled. We analyze the results first of all considering programming languages individually. Then, we evaluate families of them sharing some characteristics, for example, being compiled or interpreted.
Highlights
Which programming language is the best one? In general, the answer could be “no guess,”
We propose a way for understanding how to widen this answer, suggesting which programming languages should not be chosen after considering a set of different criteria as a whole
The first element to observe is the performance of the various programming languages individually
Summary
Which programming language is the best one? In general, the answer could be “no guess,” . We propose a way for understanding how to widen this answer, suggesting which programming languages should not be chosen after considering a set of different criteria as a whole. They are allowed to choose the language to use and the problem to tackle in a set of about twenty benchmarks. If one of them performs worse in terms of at least one criterion and not better in the others, it is dominated and deleted from the program list This way, the survived codes are the ones that behave the best, or that, at least, are not clearly worse than any other. We consider computational time, memory usage, and source code size as input to the DMU/language while we consider the quantities of programs contributed for solving each workload as outputs.
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