From: Gawnsoft <xlucid@...>
Date: 2004-06-20T23:23:16+09:00
Subject: Re: the new great computer language shootout

On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 03:08:06 +0900, Mark Hubbart <discord@mac.com>
wrote (more or less):
..
>hmmm... actually, 12% speed increase (actually a 12.7% time decrease, 
>to be specific) would just kick us up one notch, putting us ahead of 
>gawk (on my box, anyway, YMMV). But at least we wouldn't be last :)

Is there a new definition of speed that's not as a linear function of
time?


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