Jp> PyStones may be short (and be nearly lambda free!) but it is one
Jp> opaque blob to me. I'd be hard pressed to rewrite it in any style,
Jp> given its perverse use of global state.
It's written that way on purpose, of course. Pystone is almost a direct
translation of a similar program written in C (dhrystone *), which was
itself a translation of a program written in Ada. The reason for the rather
unusual coding style in those earlier programs was to defeat compiler
optimization techniques and attempt to test a processor's integer
performance.
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(*) http://performance.netlib.org/performance/html/dhrystone.intro.html
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