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I think "The Computer Language Benchmarks Game" is so politically loaded, that it shouldn't be referred anymore. It can give people very wrong idea of performa
by vardump 11y ago
I think "The Computer Language Benchmarks Game" is so politically loaded, that it shouldn't be referred anymore.
It can give people very wrong idea of performance between different languages. Especially people who don't have significant software development experience.
- CyberDildonics 11y agoWhat is a better resource? The page itself talks about how no one should put much stock in the results, but there aren't really alternatives that give the same type of information.
- chestervonwinch 11y ago> so politically loaded why do you say this?
- vardump 11y agoThat benchmark does not allow faster implementations of languages to be part of the benchmark. Like they allow only interpreted implementation of certain languages, not fast JIT version. It's just the end results are even less meaningful this way. All this is entirely within their rights, of course. Someone else should create a competing programming language benchmark that includes all reasonable language implementations and all reasonable benchmark entries in those languages. Unfortunately, no one has bothered.
- chestervonwinch 11y agoSo you believe the reason for this is because of some political agenda? Are there conflicts of interest with the maintainers of the site? or I guess what are your reasons for your believing this? I'm genuinely asking / curious. I've only looked at the site in passing maybe a few times.
- igouy 11y agoPlease take the program source code and measurement scripts and publish your own measurements. http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/play.html#languagex http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/play.html#languagex