Fibonacci(50) performance : Java > C > C++ > D > Go > Terra (Lua) > Lua-JIT (Lua)

Recently,  I have been spending some time to learn D and Go  languages.  D Lang is an evolution of C++ where as Go is being claimed to be an evolution of C but I think  it is a Google's attempt to replace dependency on the Java.

I really like the simplicity of Go where the learning curve is very lean but accepting it as a system level programming would be a tough sell.   I think it is more for Java/Python developers for building the enterprise softwares rather than using it for hardware/device-drivers/embedded programming, but you never know as  Google is very successful selling  Android on low powered smart devices.

I did some performance bench for C, C++, D and Go  languages using the Fibonacci algorithm.

Results: (see updated results at the end)

For Fibonacci(25), C++ >= Go > C >= Lua-JIT > D > Lua-Terra > Java 1.6

For Fibonacci(50), Java > C > C++ > D-ldc > D-dmd > Go > Lua-Terra > Lua-JIT

Now surprisingly,  Java out performed C/C++  for Fibonacci (50) which hurts my ego :) !!