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This is a bit exaggerated right? When you buy a car, you aren't racing with it, but the amount of time it goes to 60 mph still matters, even if you're looking f
by banachtarski 14y ago
This is a bit exaggerated right? When you buy a car, you aren't racing with it, but the amount of time it goes to 60 mph still matters, even if you're looking for fuel efficiency or something else.
- mattmanser 14y agoNot really. Programming is very different to driving in a straight line. As an admittedly fairly poor analogy, in programming you generally still have to assemble the car first. Silly things like laying out controls, moving data from/to the db, etc. Having a really easy to assemble car is still going to take so much more time than the time you spend driving from A to B. So it's much more important. Add on top that you're going to be constantly asked to disassemble it and reassemble it to change the wheel size, etc. because accounting forgot to say that you'd be driving off road.
- banachtarski 14y agoI'm addressing the point above: "Language Benchmark is probably the most useless and counter-productive place to start talking about language and platform comparison." This was the point that I completely disagree with. When somebody gives me a new programming language (Julia for example), I'm going to want to know the numbers just so I have that as a baseline understanding. Afterwards sure, I want to know all the bells and whistles the language gives me over C.