The Computer Languages Shootout Game

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== Quote from bearophile (bearophileHUGS at lycos.com)'s article
> Russel Winder:
> > The game is known to be fundamentally flawed,
> It has flaws, but if you try to create something better you will probably create
something far worse.

Agreed.  People need to appreciate the difference between "noisy" and "completely
worthless".  Maybe it's easier for me than for most people because I work with
statistics and noisy data on a daily basis.

The Language Benchmark Game is noisy.  This means that you can't tell at a
fine-grained resolution which language is fastest, and small differences are
almost meaningless.  It is not completely worthless, though.  If it shows a
difference of several fold, you can be pretty sure that's real.  I see no problem
with it as long as everyone understands that it's noisy and that small differences
are to be taken with a grain of salt.