Choose splatform-independent language for math-intensive computations?

This will undoubtedly start a new flamewar until someone closes the question. My personal opinion is you should use C++, where the missing garbage collection is something you should accept, since manual memory management offers you more performance tuning options.

You made yourself a very tough task (and asked an interesting question, by the way).

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