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Re:Benchmarking 20 programming languages on N-queens and mat... by hgomersall on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @03:35AM (#38851947)
Also it's using checked indexing, which apart from being not idiomatic, is also going to slow things down. A fairer comparison would be to use the unchecked indexing variants.
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Re:Benchmarking 20 programming languages on N-queens and mat... by neonsunset on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @06:07AM (#38852788)
Yeah, it's a similar problem in C# - ported code 1:1 is not representative since it now can't do out of bounds accesses and is therefore safe but comes at a cost of bounds checks which can be manually elided.
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Re:Benchmarking 20 programming languages on N-queens and mat... by vlovich123 on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @11:36AM (#38856077)
Unchecked indexing is unidiomatic. A more fair comparison world be using iterators if possible but otherwise you have to live with that.
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