From: paul.biggar@gmail.com   
      
   On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:12 AM, Hans-Peter Diettrich   
    wrote:   
   > IMO algorithms are so language independent, that they may boil down to   
   > the very same machine code, regardless of the used language and compiler.   
      
   This is only true if you take a very narrow view of language   
   implementations. Of the "most popular" languages today, lets suppose   
   C, C++, Java, PHP, C#, VB, and Javascript, I would say that there   
   exist only C and C++ implementations which could be expected to   
   execute the very same machine code at run-time, even for simple   
   algorithms. It would be tough to expect different interpreters, JITs,   
   managed languages and virtual machines to execute a program similarly.   
      
   Paul   
      
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