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[John Colvin via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 8 December 2014 at 12:09:20 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> On Monday, 8 December 2014 at 10:31:46 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
>> After changing the benchmark to more carefully measure the 
>> integration function (ldc was unfairly taking advantage of 
>> knowing a and b at compile-time), scala does indeed win by a 
>> small margin.
>>
>> I wonder what it's managing to achieve here? AFAICT there 
>> really isn't much scope for optimisation in that while loop 
>> without breaking IEEE-754 guarantees.
>
> Maybe scala takes the same advantage?

Perhaps it did, but the technique used to force ldc not to 
(randomly generating `a` on entry to timeIt) should also apply to 
scala.