From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2006-07-29T00:42:58+09:00
Subject: Re: For performance, write it in C - Part 2, comparing C, Ruby and Java

On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 12:37:20AM +0900, Mike Harris wrote:
> Chad Perrin wrote:
> >
> >. . . and timings without JVM startup time are at least as "useless"
> >since there are similarly "irrelevant" parts of the total time for
> >completion of C, Ruby, Perl, Python, PHP, and other-language programs
> >that might be benchmarked.  Unless we're going to eliminate all time
> >from all benchmarks that isn't strictly related to execution, we'd
> >better just admit "defeat" on this one, and include JVM time (especially
> >since there's no sane way to eliminate all time not strictly related to
> >execution in a "true" interpreted language -- making any possible Ruby
> >benchmarks "irrelevant" and "useless" by that argument).
> >
> Uh, you start your interpreter/jvm/whatever, get everything started, 
> then time an operation.  it's certainly not "impossible"

. . . and of course, in Perl (for instance), things like BEGIN blocks
have no relevancy, runtime compilation doesn't occur . . .

(sarcasm collision imminent)

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