Re: [racket] Computer Language Benchmark Game

2012-03-12 Thread namekuseijin
See, great fun indeed. :) Em 16/02/2012 18:49, "Eli Barzilay" escreveu: > A few minutes ago, namekuseijin wrote: > > certainly useless, but much fun. ;) > > Not even that. > > -- > ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: >http://barzilay.org/

Re: [racket] Computer Language Benchmark Game

2012-02-19 Thread Isaac Gouy
> From: Robby Findler > Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2012 1:32 PM > Subject: Re: [racket] Computer Language Benchmark Game > > Hi guys: this doesn't seem to be a very Racket-specific discussion. Do > you mind taking it elsewhere? (Feel free to point us to where you go &

Re: [racket] Computer Language Benchmark Game

2012-02-19 Thread Robby Findler
om: Eli Barzilay > >> Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 8:11 PM >> Subject: Re: [racket] Computer Language Benchmark Game > > -snip- >> When submissions are dropped because of a vague "it's too fast", >> that's a bias. > > For sake of argument, I

Re: [racket] Computer Language Benchmark Game

2012-02-19 Thread Isaac Gouy
> From: Eli Barzilay > Sent: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 19:30:58 -0800 -snip- > To explain some of the background, Issac is the person who is running > the shootout at the moment. We have had private email conversations > on this topics before, and I let my frustration from that context show > through in a

Re: [racket] Computer Language Benchmark Game

2012-02-19 Thread Isaac Gouy
> From: Eli Barzilay > Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 8:11 PM > Subject: Re: [racket] Computer Language Benchmark Game -snip- > When submissions are dropped because of a vague "it's too fast", > that's a bias.  For sake of argument, I'll not even bothe

Re: [racket] Computer Language Benchmark Game

2012-02-18 Thread Eli Barzilay
Sorry for the seemingly out-of-nowhere aggressive reply below. To explain some of the background, Issac is the person who is running the shootout at the moment. We have had private email conversations on this topics before, and I let my frustration from that context show through in a bad way. In

Re: [racket] Computer Language Benchmark Game

2012-02-18 Thread Matthias Felleisen
On Feb 17, 2012, at 11:11 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote: > Yes. Please take petty flaming attempts elsewhere. Eli, with all due respect, this is the reverse of what we want. I didn't know that the Language Shootout is biased, and I am glad this came up. Issac, thank you for getting this informati

Re: [racket] Computer Language Benchmark Game

2012-02-17 Thread Eli Barzilay
Yesterday, Isaac Gouy wrote: > Eli Barzilay writes: > -snip- > > > seems to be measuring gmp performance rather than racket's... > > > > Yes, it's unfortunate, but that's what practically everyone does. > > There's even a Racket program that doesn't use GMP! > > http://shootout.alioth.debian.or

Re: [racket] Computer Language Benchmark Game

2012-02-17 Thread Isaac Gouy
Eli Barzilay writes: -snip- > > seems to be measuring gmp performance rather than racket's... > > Yes, it's unfortunate, but that's what practically everyone does. There's even a Racket program that doesn't use GMP! http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/program.php?test=pidigits&lang=racket&id

Re: [racket] Computer Language Benchmark Game

2012-02-16 Thread Eli Barzilay
A few minutes ago, namekuseijin wrote: > certainly useless, but much fun. ;) Not even that. -- ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! Racket Users list: http://list

Re: [racket] Computer Language Benchmark Game

2012-02-16 Thread namekuseijin
certainly useless, but much fun. ;) Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users

Re: [racket] Computer Language Benchmark Game

2012-02-16 Thread Eli Barzilay
A few minutes ago, namekuseijin wrote: > Looking at: > http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/program.php?test=spectralnorm&lang=racket&id=3 > > I stumbled upon this: > > ;; the big let improves performance by about 20% > (let* () > ... various defs...) > > bizarre... why? And is it still tru