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Re:Java for Everything (2014) by igouy on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @11:48AM (#26957554)
> There is an interesting issue on benchmarkgame’s repo…

No.

There was an interesting issue.

The clever trick was disallowed and the programs that used the clever trick were removed.

> … insanely close with double the allocations…

No, what you see is not with double the allocations.

The clever trick was disallowed and the programs that used the clever trick were removed.

Read the program source code.

Re:Java for Everything (2014) by kaba0 on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @01:51PM (#26959176)
I didn’t know that those results were removed, but nonetheless, at the time with double the allocation Java was insanely close to the “cheating” C# program.
Re:Java for Everything (2014) by igouy on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @03:57PM (#26960711)
I doubt that your allegation of dishonesty is welcome in this forum.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re:Java for Everything (2014) by kaba0 on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @02:27AM (#26966334)
What allegation? I put cheating into quotes, indicating that I by no means mean bad-faith behind it. My point was to point out how great Java’s GC is.

Especially that my whole comment was actually defending C#, even though I’m not particularly fond of it.

Re:Java for Everything (2014) by igouy on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @02:36PM (#26972570)
> I put cheating into quotes

That only works when you make little quoting gestures with your fingers.

Re:Java for Everything (2014) by kaba0 on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @07:00PM (#26975330)
Then feel free to read them visualizing me doing just that