From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2004-05-29T15:03:41+09:00
Subject: Re: make faster Richards benchmark

Duncan Lissett <dlissett0@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Martin DeMello <martindemello@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<m4ftc.603356$Ig.361204@pd7tw2no>...
> 
> > > > 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?
> 
> Martin, I don't understand what point you're making - spell it out for
> me.

Mostly that the more clever optimisation we use, the harder it's going
to be to separate "ruby benchmarks better than python does" from "the
ruby guys did a better job of implementing this than the python guys
did". OTOH the fact that it's easier to do a better implementation in
ruby may be more significant than the raw speed of the interpreter :)

martin