From: igouy@... (Isaac Gouy)
Date: 2004-08-04T01:21:32+09:00
Subject: the new great computer language shootout

On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 05:57:00 PST +0900, gabriele renzi 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 :)

> did you submitted the proposed change to the authors ?

> while you're at it you could ask for the removal of all thst ugly
> 'then' in conditionals, and looking at except.ruby there are useless
> 'return self' in the initialize method, then ...


You guys are the experts - contribute.

Write faster cleaner implementations of the Shootout tests and send them in.

best wishes, Isaac