23 Dec
2005
23 Dec
'05
3:44 p.m.
Peter Simons wrote:
It's because nobody took the time to write faster entries for the tests where Haskell is at the bottom of the pile. The "Computer Language Shootout Benchmark" is a fun idea, but it's quite pointless to draw any conclusions about programming languages from those results. If it were included in the contest, native assembler code would win every time.
If the results could be trusted, they would be useful. You could balance the expected loss in performance against other factors (e.g. speed of development). Cheers, Daniel. -- /\/`) http://oooauthors.org /\/_/ http://opendocumentfellowship.org /\/_/ \/_/ I am not over-weight, I am under-tall. /