Hello Devon;
...thus Project Euler might be more to your taste.
Devon McCormick wrote:
We really should not encourage the piddling focus of things like these
benchmarks. It's a bit like comparing restaurants by how fast you can
finish a dinner at each one: it's really missing the point.
On 12/5/07, Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Dec 5, 2007 5:46 PM, Randy MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You can get the result using the same method outlined in the benchmarks:
In my opinion, benchmarks which micromanage implementation, rather
than specify outcomes, can only be meaningful when considering different
implementations of the same underlying language. And, even there, their
only value is in determining how well some aspect of that language fits
some resource constraint.
Extending this kind of benchmark across languages seems to be somewhat
like trying enforce the use of latin verb conjugation rules in korean.
Put differently, in contexts where these benchmarks ("implementation is
enforced") are meaningful across languages, we are probably really talking
about things like dialects -- different implementation of more or less
exactly
the same underlying symbolism -- rather than significanlty different
languages.
Put differently, if the underlying language took a "one at a time
specification"
and turned that into something like J's L2,|.L3, it would do well at this
kind
of benchmark. So what do we gain from forbidding L2,|.L3?
--
Raul
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