The Computer Languages Shootout Game

[Rainer Deyke]

On 11/1/2010 13:04, Isaac Gouy wrote:
> --- On Mon, 11/1/10, Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com>
> wrote:
>> Nobody would believe benchmarks on the D web site. Heck, I don't
>> believe any benchmarks published by the developers of any
>> language.
> 
> When you publish the source code of the programs, and the compile and
> build logs, and the compiler and linker versions, and the OS the
> measurements were made on, ... others don't have to just "believe"
> because they can try to confirm the measurements for themselves.

I tend to assume that benchmarks posted by the developers of the
language are correct, but deliberately chosen to make the language look
good and the competition look bad.  Reproducing the tests locally would
only catch the most blatant forms of cheating.


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Rainer Deyke - rainerd at eldwood.com