From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2005-06-13T04:04:04+09:00
Subject: Re: python/ruby benchmark(don't shoot the messenger)

Austin Ziegler wrote:
> 
> If we're not getting the performance we need, we fix the damn problem.
> We don't rely on "benchmarks" -- we rely on real world measurements of
> our real problems. Not on pseudo-crap like gigaflops or specmark or
> the speed of an airborne swallow. Actually, strike that. The last is
> useful.

Yeah, I rely on the speed of airborne swallows at least three times as 
often as Ackermann functions.  ;-)

Curt