On 11/6/07, S. Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Dani�l Mantione <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Is it true that a slow program has a worse effect on the shootout > > > results than a missing program? That seems wrong to me. > > > > There has been a long discussion on the Shootout forums about it. Isaac > > believes that it is more fair this way for languages that don't have all > > benchmarks implemented. Now we simply have to make him retract all our > > poor performing programs :) > > Exactly. A not very fast language can win the shootout > if it is faster than every other language for just one benchmark > and if only the program for that benchmark is submitted. >
Well, as the website says, it's just a game. Nevertheless, in this extreme situation nobody would take the language seriously... -Flávio
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