From: "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
Date: 2005-06-13T04:19:57+09:00
Subject: Re: python/ruby benchmark(don't shoot the messenger)

On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Curt Hibbs wrote:

> 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.  ;-)

it's 42 right?

-a
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