Re: Shootout (sum-file)

On May 6, 7:49 am, Richard Heathfield <r...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Isaac Gouy said:
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> <snip>
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> > From the top of the home page:
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> > "Benchmarking programming languages?
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> > How can we benchmark a programming language?
> > We can't - we benchmark programming language implementations.
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> > How can we benchmark language implementations?
> > We can't - we measure particular programs."
>
> And we can't benchmark particular programs except within the contexts of
> language and implementation. So we're stuffed.



We can't benchmark particular programs except within the context of
language and implementation - and that's what we all do.