这都是时间和努力的问题。

给予无限的时间和努力:

汇编程序比用C语言编写的程序要快。 C程序将比用c++编写的程序更快。

固定的:给定一定的时间和努力:

c++程序比用C编写的程序要快。 C语言的程序比用汇编语言编写的程序要快。

为什么?因为你做的抽象越多，你就可以花更多的时间来优化真正重要的代码关键部分。这里的几个假设是，一个开发人员对这三种语言都有同样的能力，你不关心二进制大小、内存使用情况等。

每种抽象都有其成本效益，但应该使代码更容易、更快地编写。

For the most part, every C instruction corresponds to a very few assembler instructions. You are essentially writing higher level machine code, so you have control over almost everything the processor does. Many other compiled languages, such as C++, have a lot of simple looking instructions that can turn into much more code than you think it does (virtual functions, copy constructors, etc..) And interpreted languages like Java or Ruby have another layer of instructions that you never see - the Virtual Machine or Interpreter.

c++的平均速度更快(就像它最初一样，主要是C的超集，尽管有一些不同)。然而，对于特定的基准测试，通常有另一种更快的语言。

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/

fannjuch-redux是Scala中最快的

n-body和fasta在Ada中更快。

频谱范数在Fortran中是最快的。

反补、mandelbrot和pidigits在ATS中最快。

regex-dna是JavaScript中最快的。

chameneau -redux最快的是Java 7。

Haskell的螺纹环速度最快。

其余的基准测试在C或c++中是最快的。

在过去，只有两种类型的语言:编译型和解释型。

编译语言利用“编译器”读取语言语法并将其转换为相同的汇编语言代码，这可以直接在CPU上进行。解释型语言使用了几种不同的方案，但从本质上讲，语言语法被转换成一种中间形式，然后在“解释器”(用于执行代码的环境)中运行。

因此，在某种意义上，在代码和机器之间存在另一个“层”——解释器。而且，在计算机中，越多就意味着使用更多的资源。翻译速度较慢，因为他们必须执行更多的操作。

More recently, we've seen more hybrid languages like Java, that employ both a compiler and an interpreter to make them work. It's complicated, but a JVM is faster, more sophisticated and way more optimized than the old interpreters, so it stands a much better change of performing (over time) closer to just straight compiled code. Of course, the newer compilers also have more fancy optimizing tricks so they tend to generate way better code than they used to as well. But most optimizations, most often (although not always) make some type of trade-off such that they are not always faster in all circumstances. Like everything else, nothing comes for free, so the optimizers must get their boast from somewhere (although often times it using compile-time CPU to save runtime CPU).

Getting back to C, it is a simple language, that can be compiled into fairly optimized assembly and then run directly on the target machine. In C, if you increment an integer, it's more than likely that it is only one assembler step in the CPU, in Java however, it could end up being a lot more than that (and could include a bit of garbage collection as well :-) C offers you an abstraction that is way closer to the machine (assembler is the closest), but you end up having to do way more work to get it going and it is not as protected, easy to use or error friendly. Most other languages give you a higher abstraction and take care of more of the underlying details for you, but in exchange for their advanced functionality they require more resources to run. As you generalize some solutions, you have to handle a broader range of computing, which often requires more resources.

保罗。

C的设计者们已经做出了取舍。也就是说，他们决定把速度放在安全之上。C不会

检查数组下标边界 检查未初始化的变量值 检查内存泄漏 检查空指针解引用

当你索引到一个数组时，在Java中，它接受虚拟机中的一些方法调用，绑定检查和其他健全检查。这是有效的，绝对没问题，因为它在应有的地方增加了安全性。但是在C语言中，即使是非常微不足道的东西也不会被放在安全的地方。例如，C不要求memcpy检查要复制的区域是否重叠。它并不是一种用于编写大型商业应用程序的语言。

但是这些设计决策并不是C语言中的bug。它们是被设计出来的，因为它允许编译器和库编写者从计算机中获得每一点性能。下面是C语言的精神——C语言的基本原理文档是这样解释的:

C code can be non-portable. Although it strove to give programmers the opportunity to write truly portable programs, the Committee did not want to force programmers into writing portably, to preclude the use of C as a ``high-level assembler'': the ability to write machine-specific code is one of the strengths of C. Keep the spirit of C. The Committee kept as a major goal to preserve the traditional spirit of C. There are many facets of the spirit of C, but the essence is a community sentiment of the underlying principles upon which the C language is based. Some of the facets of the spirit of C can be summarized in phrases like Trust the programmer. Don't prevent the programmer from doing what needs to be done. Keep the language small and simple. Provide only one way to do an operation. Make it fast, even if it is not guaranteed to be portable. The last proverb needs a little explanation. The potential for efficient code generation is one of the most important strengths of C. To help ensure that no code explosion occurs for what appears to be a very simple operation, many operations are defined to be how the target machine's hardware does it rather than by a general abstract rule. An example of this willingness to live with what the machine does can be seen in the rules that govern the widening of char objects for use in expressions: whether the values of char objects widen to signed or unsigned quantities typically depends on which byte operation is more efficient on the target machine.

The lack of abstraction is what makes C faster. If you write an output statement you know exactly what is happening. If you write an output statement in java it is getting compiled to a class file which then gets run on a virtual machine introducing a layor of abstraction. The lack of object oriented features as a part of the language also increases it's speed do to less code being generated. If you use C as an object oriented language then you are doing all the coding for things such as classes, inharitence, etc. This means rather then make something generalized enough for everyone with the amount of code and the performance penelty that requires you only write what you need to get the job done.