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Re:Giving up on Julia (2016) by kace91 on Sunday August 18, 2019 @01:10PM (#20731437)
> It should be reported as "__ms slower".

That would be dependent on hardware, while the relation will be constant.

Re:Giving up on Julia (2016) by bogdanoff_2 on Sunday August 18, 2019 @01:54PM (#20731708)
Hardware is so complex and there is so much variation in it that this is "obviously" not true.

As a simple example, if two computers are comparable in speed but one has a bigger cpu cache or faster ram, they might run programs with low memory footprint at the same speed, but one will be much faster when running a program that uses a lot of memory.