It seems the benchmark was designed for C. I'm skeptical about this benchmark
because it shows fortran get rather poor performance in number crunching and
that's counter-intuitive.
If the benchmark is tailored for J then there should be programming tasks for
each of J's primitive, eg. a problem on sorting an array and /:~ is an accepted
solution. This benchmark is of course extremely unfair, however if you can live
without those primitives than you do not need J. :-)
I once read an email/article quoting APL was not allowed in a programming exam.
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regards,
bill
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