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Discussion on: The Great Prime Number Challenge: Which Programming Language is the Fastest?

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Kyle Schneider

Thank you for your comment and for pointing out some potential issues with my experiment. As I mentioned in the post, there are many factors that can influence the performance of code, and I maintain that the results I presented should be taken with a grain of salt.

I appreciate your observations about the differences in the implementation of the code across languages, and I agree that this could have contributed to the discrepancies between C, Rust, and Java. I did not even think about this when I generated all the other codes from Python using ChatGPT. The points you made are certainly valid factors to consider when comparing the performance of these languages.

Additionally, I acknowledge that my use of the standard gcc compiler for C may not have been the most optimal choice. I did not even consider choice of compiler, but this could certainly be an interesting avenue for future investigation.