From: igouy@...
Date: 2005-03-19T09:59:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Fibonacci Benchmark Correction

jzakiya@mail.com wrote:
> The Great Computer Language Shootout Benchmarks
> http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/
> is using an incorrect fibonacci algorithm benchmark.

While acknowledging the comments of Josef, Michael, Nikolai, Joel,
Michael, and E, we'll probably change the code for the Fibonacci
programs for the simple reason that we refer to the Mathworld
definition which uses F(0)=0, so it's more than a little confusing when
we don't use that definition for the programs :-)

The original Shootout referred to this definition
   http://cubbi.org/serious/fibonacci.html


Meanwhile Tcl programmers have actually been contributing programs to
Shootout - no wonder Tcl now looks so much better than Ruby!