Re: [FRIAM] Which programming languages are fastest? | Computer Language Benchmarks Game
HTML 5 is oddly abscent. Though speed tests are kind of cool-relevence and what used in the reel world might be slightly more telling--though I think someone had put a few numbers up on the list a few months ago. On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote: Latest shootout results. http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=alllang=all V8 JS still hanging in there well ahead of all the agile gang (ruby/python/etc). C# seems to be loosing ground to hefty Java, but that could easily be optimization flags. The python numbers may be unfair: its all python code with no C libraries. I doubt many python programs are w/o the python wrappers around C code. -- Owen FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
Re: [FRIAM] Which programming languages are fastest? | Computer Language Benchmarks Game
Not clear what you mean. HTML5 is a markup language, not a programming language. You can't use it to perform computations. *-- Russ Abbott* *_* *** Professor, Computer Science* * California State University, Los Angeles* * Google voice: 747-*999-5105 Google+: https://plus.google.com/114865618166480775623/ * vita: *http://sites.google.com/site/russabbott/ *_* On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Gillian Densmore gil.densm...@gmail.comwrote: HTML 5 is oddly abscent. Though speed tests are kind of cool-relevence and what used in the reel world might be slightly more telling--though I think someone had put a few numbers up on the list a few months ago. On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.netwrote: Latest shootout results. http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=alllang=all V8 JS still hanging in there well ahead of all the agile gang (ruby/python/etc). C# seems to be loosing ground to hefty Java, but that could easily be optimization flags. The python numbers may be unfair: its all python code with no C libraries. I doubt many python programs are w/o the python wrappers around C code. -- Owen FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
Re: [FRIAM] Disenfranchised? Americans Elect?
Owen Densmore wrote at 03/18/2012 12:02 PM: Larry Lessig apparently has two interesting views on AE 1 - Anonymous contributions: He's not bothered by them, mainly because not even the AE candidates will know who they are, thus not having power over the candidate. Re: Lessig's anonymity argument. I found this comment interesting: http://www.johnlumea.com/2012/03/the-shadow-super-pac-of-centrism.html But, for some observers, it is not down at the granular, personal level of quid pro quo that the opportunity and the risk for corruption is most evident at Americans Elect. Rather, it is up at the systemic, process level — the level that, in order to see what's going on, requires a wider-angle lens that Lessig seems unwilling to use. As I see it, this is the same extent of the disagreement between Steven Aftergood of Secrecy News and Wikileaks. They're both on the same side, but Aftergood is willing to accept a little secrecy (or bureaucratic viscosity in the flow of information) in the name of rationality whereas Wikileaks identifies secrecy itself as part of the problem. I happen to come down on the open side in both arguments. I.e. I don't buy Lessig's argument at all. There is only anonymity for the individuals, not for the _corporation_ we call Americans Elect (which has an executive team and a board of directors with powers beyond those of the delegates). In more positive news: https://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2012/03/gao_expands.html A classified GAO review of FBI counterterrorism programs has been completed, and a GAO investigation of the role of contractors in intelligence is in progress. -- glen FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
Re: [FRIAM] Which programming languages are fastest? | Computer Language Benchmarks Game
Nice. It is commonly known that interpreters are slower than compilers but it is interesting to have measures and a ranking. Thanks 2012/3/18 Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net Latest shootout results. http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=alllang=all V8 JS still hanging in there well ahead of all the agile gang (ruby/python/etc). C# seems to be loosing ground to hefty Java, but that could easily be optimization flags. The python numbers may be unfair: its all python code with no C libraries. I doubt many python programs are w/o the python wrappers around C code. -- Owen FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org -- Alfredo FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
Re: [FRIAM] Handling Your QR Code Marketing Successfully
Came across this a few weeks about exploiting QR codes. Somewhat entertaining cat and mouse story and something to be aware of when scanning them with your phone... http://th3j35t3r.wordpress.com/2012/03/09/curiosity-pwned-the-cat/ -Robert Innis On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 9:21 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote: Are you turning this into a book? Looks great! Please let us know if/when you update it. (BTW, CSSS this year?) -- Owen On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 8:05 PM, Tom Carter t...@astarte.csustan.eduwrote: All -- There is a QR code on the front page of this . . . QR codes are reasonably redundant, so you can just plop whatever you want in the middle (as long as you don't obliterate too much), and it will generally still work . . . http://csustan.csustan.edu/~tom/Lecture-Notes/Nonlinear-Systems/Nonlinear-Systems.pdf (these are in progress lecture notes for a class I teach . . .) Thanks . . . Tom Carter On Mar 18, 2012, at 5:18 PM, Russ Abbott wrote: Neat idea. Here are some imageshttp://www.onextrapixel.com/2011/09/05/worlds-first-fully-functional-qr-code-portraits/that actually scan. I found them with a simple search for QR Code on Google images. The site linked to was on page 8. *-- Russ* On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Arlo Barnes arlo.bar...@gmail.comwrote: I have seen artistic modifications to QR codes - things like the Go board, but also different colourations across a code, and even logos obscuring parts of the center (not sure how that works, I guess there is a lot of redundancy?) I think the most interesting was a QR cookie (I shall endeavor to find pictures). -Arlo James Barnes FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
Re: [FRIAM] Which programming languages are fastest? | Computer Language Benchmarks Game
From the link, it seems that C is the fastest programming language by a very wide margin. On 3/19/12, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote: Latest shootout results. http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=alllang=all FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
Re: [FRIAM] Which programming languages are fastest? | Computer Language Benchmarks Game
C's in third spot, just behind C++ and Fortran. There shouldn't be much difference between C and C++, and there isn't. Fortran has almost always produced more efficient code, although one should be able to approach Fortran performance in C and C++ with a little care. Cheers On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 07:38:37AM +0530, Sarbajit Roy wrote: From the link, it seems that C is the fastest programming language by a very wide margin. On 3/19/12, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote: Latest shootout results. http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=alllang=all FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org -- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
