Language performance benchmark be updated 2019/11/09

[bachmeier]

On Monday, 18 November 2019 at 21:35:08 UTC, JN wrote:

> I think it signifies a deeper problem with these kind of 
> benchmarks. Most people would expect these benchmarks to 
> measure idiomatic code, "every day" kind of code. Most people 
> would write their code with associative arrays in this case. 
> Sure, you can optimize it later, but just as well you can just 
> drop into asm {} block and write hand optimized code.

If you're in a position where you care about "fast as possible" 
code, how fast your "every day" code runs isn't really helpful.

Now, I do understand that you might want to measure the 
performance of a piece of code written when you aren't optimizing 
for execution speed. Someone in that position is going to care 
about speed of execution and speed of development, among other 
things. The problem is that you can't learn anything useful in 
that case from a benchmark that reports execution time and 
nothing else.