[OT] Application case study comparing Java, Go, and C++

[Jon Degenhardt]

This paper may be of interest to people here:

"A comparison of three programming languages for a full-fledged 
next-generation sequencing tool", P.Costanza, C.Herzeel, 
W.Verachrert
https://doi.org/10.1101/558056

The paper compares implementations of a tool operating on SAM/BAM 
files (bioinformatics) from a performance perspective. Focus is 
on comparison of GC schemes used in Go and Java with reference 
counting in C++. The GC schemes were materially faster.

I'm not familiar with the authors or the implementations, so 
cannot say how well the implementations were done. However, it 
appears to be a useful case study, and the authors go provide a 
fair bit of analysis in the paper.

There's a reddit thread also: 
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/avsfc6/performance_comparison_of_go_c_and_java_for/