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The Fastest BigInt in the West

• igouy 12y ago
  >>"Unlike the Benchmarks Game, we aren’t requiring all the test programs for the same language to be identical. This is a controversial rule..."<< Benchmarks Game programs for the same language are not required to be identical. Wilfred Hughes has been asked to correct that misstatement. >>"It’s also not clear how representative the test programs are of typical performance of that language."<< Without sampling programs "in the wild" how could anyone possibly claim that other programs were "representative"? See http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/jsmeter/ http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/jsmeter/
  • igouy 12y ago
    As-for the reference to Alex Gaynor's blog post, see: http://www.reddit.com/r/Julia/comments/2jr0xo/the_fastest_bigint_in_the_west/clhkooj http://www.reddit.com/r/Julia/comments/2jr0xo/the_fastest_bi...
• igouy 12y ago
  Wilfred, please correct your statement that the benchmarks game requires "all the test programs for the same language to be identical". It isn't true. It wasn't true 4 years ago. For sure, my preference was to show PyPy programs that also worked with CPython -- that made clear that optimizing for PyPy could make performance worse with CPython and vice versa.