> > > > There's also the (in)famous language benchmark > > site:http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/ > > This is primarily what I was going on. I realize no > benchmarking approach is going to be perfect, but > this attempt doesn't seem too bad. Is there any > reason to be particularly sceptical about results > found here? >
The programs are written by volunteers, so the languages which have people that care about the results (and spend more time writing optimized code for their language of choice) get a big boost in score. Results are also affected by whether relevant libraries (often highly optimized for speed and memory) are included in the language's standard library, as third party libraries can't be used in shootout submissions. Also, for many shootout problems, the answer can be determined at compile-time, so you are potentially testing an aspect of compilation optimization that is not so relevant for practical programming problems. I don't know of a better set of benchmark results to look at - I use the shootout results myself - but I would take them with a grain of salt. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
