[Techtalk] interpreted vs. compiled languages

[Michael Fisher]

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Carla Schroder <carla at bratgrrl.com> wrote:

> Assuming a programmer has reasonable skills, are there (generally speaking)
> significant performance differences between interpreted vs. compiled
> languages?
>
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Typically, compiled languages (C, C++, assembly) run much faster
than interpreted languages (Basic). There are also languages that are
compiled to a byte-code (Java, Python) that run faster than interpreted
languages because they are pre-compiled. One of theinteresting things about
Python is that in certain situations it gets close to running as fast as
C/C++.
Wikipedia can go into more detail but these are the basics.

Hope this helps,

Mike

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