Jared Updike wrote:
What that means is the results are completely subject to (1) how good the submission for that tests was
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(2) the choice of tests in the first place
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(3) startup times for loading the binaries into memory (GHC makes big binaries that are arguably much faster if you do things in "daemon" mode, for example).
Is that just speculation? (Erlang is an application server starting-up and that really is noticeable.) -snip-
it is pretty much a game created to make C win---it already wins!
Which C do you mean - gcc, Intel C, Tiny C? And, no! It is not a game created to make C win (although it is a game). And, no! C does not already win all the games - astonishingly it doesn't even "win" the basic loop and array test nsieve. __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com