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This comparison is a bit unreasonable because the Benchmarks Game has a heavy selection effect going on; if the compiler generates bad code for a program, peopl

This comparison is a bit unreasonable because the Benchmarks Game has a heavy selection effect going on; if the compiler generates bad code for a program, people won't submit it. There are plenty of instances where compilers go haywire and generate code far worse than even a half-competent novice would, because compilers don't know the same things about your code that you do.

igouy 7y ago
> if the compiler generates bad code for a program, people won't submit it Seems just to be speculation. Might we just as easily speculate that — if the compiler generates bad code for a program,that still looks a lot better than the comparison interpreters so people will submit it ?