From: Isaac Gouy <igouy@...>
Date: 2005-06-24T00:45:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby result: 101 seconds

Ryan Davis wrote:
-snip-
> That said... what did we learn from this thread?
>
>      Yes... benchmarks are dumb (see also, 3 lines down)
>          That there is no accounting for taste (ugliest code/
> algorithm ever).
>              A good algorithm goes a long way.
>                  2/3rds of the ppl are going to mis-analyze anyhow.
>
> .. Nothing really.

What we learn depends on many things, including
- initial expectations, are we even in the right ball-park?
- openmindedness, are we willing to hear other peoples interpretations?
- ...

So if we initially expected a little Ruby program to have the same
performance characteristics as a roughly equivalent Java program, we
learned quite a lot.

(We don't all know the same things.)