verilog against c/c++ performance comparison

[tariq786]

Hi folks,

I have a question. Does any body know if C/C++ is faster than verilog or not? If yes or no, can you provide me the source of such a comparison.

Thanks

(sorry dave_59 for yet another strange question)

 

[Jay_]

Can we compare a hardware description language with software language? I don't think the software language have the description of time. Doesn't the speed depend on compiler used, and the type of code you are using the language for also?

 

[dave_59]

I'll give you a strange answer to your strange question.

What do you mean by "faster"? An airplane flies faster than a car drives, but it is faster to drive between two cities than fly if the two cities are close enough.

Since Verilog is a C/C++ program, theoretically there is nothing you could ever write in Verilog that would be faster than a pure C/C++ program. But it might take you much longer to write that C/C++ code to run faster that it would to write it and execute it in Verilog.

Your question needs to be a lot more specific to answered properly.