Programming language benchmarks

[Andrej Mitrovic]

On 4/28/11, Alexander <aldem+dmars at nk7.net> wrote:
> On 28.04.2011 13:24, Robert Clipsham wrote:
>
>> I also notice lots of nested for loops in some of the tests, which should
>> be using slice operations really.
>
>   This is the whole point of benchmarking, IMHO - to see how good
> compiler/optimizer (and VM, if any) are - for (almost) same code, same
> algorithm.

But then these are not programming >language< benchmarks, they are
>compiler< benchmarks.

If you can get more performance out of a language with less code and
simpler syntax, then that language is better performing in my book.