From: Paul Sanchez <paul@...>
Date: 2004-05-28T22:01:06+09:00
Subject: Re: make faster Richards benchmark

Martin DeMello wrote:
> Duncan Lissett <dlissett0@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>>dmertz@free.fr (denis) wrote in message news:<4d8bbb4a.0405250359.90392a1@posting.google.com>...
>>
>>
>>>Nice that we are now faster than python, but there is still room for
>>>small improvements.
>>>You can find my version here: 
>>>http://flwrpwr.free.fr/Ruby/bench/bench27.rb
>>
>>Thanks for taking a careful look at what could be done.
> 
> 
> Isn't the point of the benchmark to compare straightforward code that
> can be reasonably be said to be equivalent in all the various languages?

I wouldn't think so.  If you're benchmarking languages rather than 
algorithms, I think the intent should be to implement the benchmark 
using best practices for each of the language.  I've seen too many 
benchmarks where people wrote FORTRAN in half a dozen languages, never 
touching the features or design approaches actually practiced by users 
of the other languages.

--paul