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> That's a micro-benchmark collection. < No, it's a meagre dozen "toy programs". (See Hennessy and Patterson "Computer Architecture"). > ... many operations w
by igouy 13y ago
> That's a micro-benchmark collection. <
No, it's a meagre dozen "toy programs". (See Hennessy and Patterson "Computer Architecture").
> ... many operations which could be significantly faster if they were written in C ... none of that matters because almost all of the total runtime is already spent in a C library. <
See Sawzall quote -- http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/dont-jump-to-conclusions.php#jump http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/dont-jump-to-conclus...
- acdha 13y ago> See Sawzall quote -- http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/dont-jump-to-conclus.. http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/dont-jump-to-conclus.... Agreed – my point was simply that over a couple decades I've only seen a handful of cases where a performance issue which was due to the language rather than the algorithm or simple data volume. Such problems exist but not for the majority of working programmers.
- igouy 13y agoIncidentally -- http://books.google.com/books?id=gQ-fSqbLfFoC&lpg=PP1&dq=Computer%20Architecture&pg=PA37#v=onepage&q=toy%20benchmark&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=gQ-fSqbLfFoC&lpg=PP1&dq=Com...