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Lemire is one of the leading experts on string matching and the author of several core libraries you probably use every day. edit fine, so instead maybe click
by aristus 7y ago
Lemire is one of the leading experts on string matching and the author of several core libraries you probably use every day.
edit fine, so instead maybe click on the links in the post to see that this article is just one of a series. He's probably tired of copy-pasting the specs of his reference hardware (Skylake https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.08318.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.08318.pdf) since all he's concerned about is the relative performance of different software.
There is a difference between "I'm being dumb because I don't know what I'm doing" and "I'm being lazy because I've done it 1,000 times and the target audience knows what I mean".
- adrianN 7y agoThen they should know enough to give at least some theories that can explain the difference and tell us something more about the test setup.
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- saagarjha 7y agoThat doesn’t excuse him from needing to describe the hardware he ran the benchmark on.
- phkahler 7y agoIt should be sufficient to state that it was the same hardware as the C++ measurement. He didnt even say that but it seemed implicit to me.
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- lanna 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority
- rowanG077 7y agoThen he should really know better. Not sure why you think the sentence you have written is even an argument.
- ricardobeat 7y agoKnow better than what? The link where he mentions the system is literally the first sentence in the post. I'm appalled at this attitude of entitlement, people don't owe us anything when publishing free content on the web. It's ok to suggest a change or ask for more details, but keep it respectful.
- pjmlp 7y agoYet he misses the fact that Java isn't defined by a single implementation and the standard library reference doesn't dictate how each Java compliant implementation is required to provide BufferedReader behaviour.