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It is dismissive of the idea that the game can tell you meaningful things about a programming language’s average or percentile performance or even its peak perf
by weberc2 8y ago
It is dismissive of the idea that the game can tell you meaningful things about a programming language’s average or percentile performance or even its peak performance.
> Go programs are not prohibited...
Right, and this is why the Go benchmarks for allocations aren’t very meaningful. Using arenas (or other kinds of preallocation) is a common optimization in Go even if Go doesn’t have a library for it.
I’m sure you’re well aware of all of this since you evidently contributed to these benchmarks, but for other readers, here’s a good thread about why these benchmarks aren’t meaningful.
- igouy 8y agoWhere did you get the idea that 10 tiny tiny programs could tell you about a programming language’s average performance? Who in this discussion has made any such a claim? You repeatedly put up a straw man.
- weberc2 8y agoIm not sure why you’re confused. ilovecaching made claims about the relative performance of programming languages based on the benchmark game.
- igouy 8y agoilovecaching responded to your claim that — [Go's] performance is closer to Java — by posting links to pages on the benchmarks game website. ilovecaching pointed to the performance of specific Go and Java programs Now you have put up a straw man — "a programming language’s average or percentile performance or even its peak performance."