On Thursday, 9 June 2016 at 15:16:34 UTC, Wyatt wrote:
The point is this sort of language benchmark should use normal
code. The sort of code that people who've never heard of
Haskell would write.
If it's a "fast" language, "ordinary-looking" code should be
fast. If being fast requires weird circumlocutions that barely
anyone knows, it doesn't matter if experts consider it best
practice.
A language optimized for performance of spontaneous code written
by newbies, who never learned the language and don't use best
practices?
