I am not an expert in benchmarking, so maybe I'm missing something. But how is that not crazy?
If I were looking to compare two things, I would run all the benchmarks on a single machine under my control. I might look at previously published reports to make sure I was getting comparable numbers. But there is no way I would publish a comparison that I merely hoped was apples to apples. I've just had too many benchmarks depend on subtle issues, ones that I had presumed were irrelevant.
Re:Pony – High Performance Actor Programming
by decklebench on Sunday May 03, 2015 @08:37PM
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The benchmarks reported on the web page (http://ponylang.org) and also reported at http://ponylang.org/papers/fast-cheap.pdf are more recent, and for these the code was run for different languages, and on one machine.
The numbers are taken from another source and it seems they didn't have the exact numbers, hence the ~9s figure which is then used to calculate 333,333. They seem to have gotten the numbers by looking up the graphs on this page:
http://libcppa.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/benchmark
Makes me wonder how precise you could be at getting the numbers from just the graphs. Pixel precision at 800x600 is probably not too bad.