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Re:New stable release of Go by swannodette on Thursday May 05, 2011 @02:54PM (#2518507)
I'm asking about technical merits of one over the other, which you didn't respond to at all. And look at the overall scores on the 64bit one-core and quad-core benchmarks. OCaml is ahead.
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Re:New stable release of Go by chc on Thursday May 05, 2011 @03:38PM (#2518653)
I'm looking at the overall scores on the 64-bit single-core and Go is six places ahead of OCaml. On the 64-bit quad, Go is five places ahead. The only one where OCaml appears to come close is single-core 32-bit, in which Go comes out one place ahead of OCaml.

(And just so we're clear: I actually like OCaml and have never used Go. So I'm not trying to wave some Go fanboy flag or anything. Those are just the numbers.)

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Re:New stable release of Go by igouy on Thursday May 05, 2011 @04:16PM (#2518755)
> six places ahead ... five places ahead ...

Those tables do not show a rank # by each programming language implementation because that might encourage people to make a completely bogus comparison!

(For example, six places rather than five just because one table includes an extra programming language - Clean.)

You're both being silly! "The numbers" for Go 6g and OCaml overlap and are quite similar.

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Re:New stable release of Go by uriel on Thursday May 05, 2011 @04:09PM (#2518741)
I thought you were talking about performance, in which case the relevant chart is:

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64/which-programming-lang...

Which shows Go is well ahead of OCaml.

The "which language is best" chart you linked has rather arbitrary weighting.

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Re:New stable release of Go by igouy on Thursday May 05, 2011 @04:30PM (#2518795)
Both pages show "performance" - they show 2 different summary statistics of "performance".

> The "which language is best" chart you linked has rather arbitrary weighting.

That chart has exactly the same "weighting" as the chart you say is "the relevant chart"!

> Which shows Go is well ahead of OCaml.

Which shows the time measurements for those programs with Go 6g and OCaml completely overlap

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64/which-programming-lang...

The time measurements are similar for both Go 6g and OCaml -

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?test=all...

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Re:New stable release of Go by igouy on Thursday May 05, 2011 @05:14PM (#2518934)
Did you downvote my reply instead of trying to justify your own comments ?
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Re:New stable release of Go by chc on Thursday May 05, 2011 @05:21PM (#2518960)
You can't downvote replies to your own comments on Hacker News, so that seems unlikely unless he's sock-puppeting.
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Re:New stable release of Go by burgerbrain on Thursday May 05, 2011 @04:56PM (#2518866)
You seem to be under the misunderstanding that simply because you asked a question that has a technical response it is not a troll.
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Re:New stable release of Go by swannodette on Thursday May 05, 2011 @05:31PM (#2518988)
Half the responses were of the reasonable variety - "Not really much to say as far as technical merits - but it feels better to program in Go for me". Some brought up interesting similar projects. And others corrected my errors. Since when is sparking reasoned debate/discussion trolling?
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