Re: Shootout (sum-file)

In article <-cqdneImBbv02L3VnZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Richard Heathfield  <rjh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>> 1.1.8? That's probably 10 years old and does not include HotSpot JIT
>> compiler. It's probably 100% interpreted.

><shrug> Right, but so what?

So the comparison is irrelevant in practice.

> And please note that the gcc and g++ versions are equally old.

A 10 year old Java implementation is more irrelevant than a 10 year
old C implementation.  It's like comparing a 10 year old C
implementation with a 10 year old Fortran implementation in 1985.

>The point is that this "shoot-out" thing isn't a race between languages
(as 
>it claims), but between *implementations* - which makes the whole thing a

>wild goose chase.

You could make it be more about languages by using the best
implementations, provided the language is reasonably mature.

-- Richard
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:wq