PDF Abstract Combining scripting languages such as Tcl with lower-level programming languages such as Java offers new opportunities for flexible and rapid software development. In this paper, we benchmark various combinations of Tcl and Java against the two languages alone. We also provide some comparisons with JavaScript.
Performance can vary by well over two orders of magnitude.
We also uncovered some interesting threading issues that affect performance on the Solaris platform. This paper is a work in progress, we used the information here to give our group some generalizations on the performance tradeoffs between various scripting languages. The Scripting Performance Test Bed Details page describes some of the details of the test bed we used, and includes a tar file distribution of the testbed.