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Re:Consider the Nimrod Programming Language by Pacabel on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @09:55PM (#7389671)
If you want to prove your point, using totally unrealistic micro-"benchmarks" such as those is by far the worst way about doing so. You're better off giving no evidence whatsoever than you are referring to those.
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Re:Consider the Nimrod Programming Language by yen223 on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @11:10PM (#7389877)
Are there any more realistic benchmarks that we can refer to? Because I've read a lot about how Haskell supposedly runs faster because of its purity, but I've not seen a lot of evidence actually supporting that notion.
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Re:Consider the Nimrod Programming Language by igouy on Monday March 17, 2014 @12:12PM (#7415953)
"[B]etter off giving no evidence" than pointing to measurements that provide a known context -- source code, implementation version, command lines, measurement scripts...

Nonsense.

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