Re:Which programming languages are the fastest?
by igouy on Wednesday May 04, 2011 @02:21PM
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> opening two tabs and clicking forward and back
Or opening two browser windows and looking side by side - by design the page layouts are narrow to enable side by side comparisons (often I've reformated programs to 80 char width), it wasn't that I foresaw the emergence of small screen iPhone browsing ;-)
> suggesting noone would ever do the work to explain
When something seems peculiar I've pursued contributors for some text to explain what's going on with their program - so my thoughts about this are based on my experiences
Or opening two browser windows and looking side by side - by design the page layouts are narrow to enable side by side comparisons (often I've reformated programs to 80 char width), it wasn't that I foresaw the emergence of small screen iPhone browsing ;-)
> suggesting noone would ever do the work to explain
When something seems peculiar I've pursued contributors for some text to explain what's going on with their program - so my thoughts about this are based on my experiences
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/program.php?test=threa...
> a blog post which does just that
As an example of something that's been done well, and done independently of the benchmarks game.
Anyone can make that kind of analysis and publish on their blog.
The benchmarks game is a starting point and a source of questions, rather than a definitive answer to every question.