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Wish that was the first sentence; would have saved me some time.
by jimbishopp 12y ago
Wish that was the first sentence; would have saved me some time.
- javadocmd 12y agoIf that's all you got out of this article then you missed the point. It's clearly targeted as a criticism of "kneel before my benchmark" posts; highlighting the fiddly technical details that make runtime scores nearly meaningless on their own. It's analogous to medical journals having to analyze all the confounders of their study in order to attempt to prove that what their graphs show is causation instead of correlation.
- octo_t 12y agoit is true for basically every programming language, from haskell to C++ to python to ruby.
- JimmyM 12y agoI think it was a joke, but I'm genuinely not sure.