Jesus, when will people stop posting this kind of "X faster than C" benchmarks? They are completely misleading and irrelevant. Next time someone is tempted ple

Jesus, when will people stop posting this kind of "X faster than C" benchmarks? They are completely misleading and irrelevant. Next time someone is tempted please remember: - You are comparing apples to oranges (interpreters to compiled languages, bigint libraries to hardware-level ints, etc.) - What a C compiler does on one particular architecture running under a particular OS is not representative of C performance - You are most probably benchmarking just a tiny subset of what the language can do, and in most cases that subset is irrelevant in 99% of uses (e.g. "float comparison faster in Blub". Who cares if most people are using Blub to build webpages?) - Finally and most importantly: WHO CARES? Unless it affects a part of the code I'm using extensively it will only affect performance tangentially, if at all. EDIT: formatting