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Re:Speeding up PHP with the HipHop VM by igouy on Monday December 03, 2012 @12:12PM (#4866459)
I said - "You can rely on the results."

Please say what you mean by "a language is faster than another".

Please say what in The Java™ Language Specification tells us that "language is faster than another."

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se7/html/index.html

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Re:Speeding up PHP with the HipHop VM by pbiggar on Monday December 03, 2012 @12:24PM (#4866535)
Exactly. You can't use the results to say that one language is faster than another. It doesn't even make sense.

(That's the context of the conversation, see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4851781)

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Re:Speeding up PHP with the HipHop VM by igouy on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @11:41AM (#4871736)
>> You can't use the results to say that... <<

That's a different claim.

>> It doesn't even make sense <<

That depends on what `notJim` meant by "to compare speeds of programming languages".

`notJim` might have thought that everyone would understand he was talking about particular language implementations and particular tasks and particular programs.

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