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The site could be renamed to be "The Computer Language Implementation Benchmarks Game", since it's not testing the language speed (best approximated by the fast

by dbaupp 12y ago

The site could be renamed to be "The Computer Language Implementation Benchmarks Game", since it's not testing the language speed (best approximated by the fastest known implementation), just certain implementations, some of which are designed with priorities above speed in mind (e.g. cPython). > Java does not get JIT warm-up time! Please stop making up misinformation! Oh, sorry! I must've been misremembering something someone told me. (Although, how does `Cold` differ from `Usual` there? It's not clear from the text what the difference is.)

igouy 12y ago
> best approximated by the fastest known implementation Best not to become so confused: " Measurement is highly specific -- the time taken for this benchmark task, by this toy program, with this programming language implementation, with these options, on this computer, with these workloads." > `Usual` http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/play.html#measure http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/play.html#measure > `Cold` http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/play.html#java http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/play.html#java "Here are some additional (Intel® Q6600® quad-core) elapsed time measurements, taken after the Java programs started and before they exited: In the first case (Cold), we simply started and measured the program 66 times; and then discarded the first measurement leaving 65 data points."