Re: Add Nim to The Computer Language Benchmarks Game?

2017-06-25 Thread cblake
So, building on the 40% or so of the benchmarks def did, I rounded out the other 60% and gave a PR to his repo. With more like hours than years of my time per program profiling/tweaking/optimizing, I got the Nim implementations to mostly parity with the top performers (Nim was in the top 3..6 im

Re: Add Nim to The Computer Language Benchmarks Game?

2017-06-25 Thread isaac
> they ban certain languages "They" don't ban certain languages. > In contrast to the benchmarksgame no languages are forbidden per-se. There are no languages forbidden per-se. * * * Your project includes far-fewer programming languages than the benchmarks game. You must have banned even more

Re: Add Nim to The Computer Language Benchmarks Game?

2017-06-25 Thread isaac
> I can't find the link at the moment [http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/play.html#languagex](http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/play.html#languagex)

Re: Add Nim to The Computer Language Benchmarks Game?

2017-06-25 Thread bluenote
I was a bit annoyed that they ban certain languages from their "game", so I started to collect my own set of silly benchmarks (plus a framework to make defining, running, and visualizing benchmarks easy): [https://bluenote10.github.io/SimpleLanguageBenchmarks](https://bluenote10.github.io/Simple

Re: Add Nim to The Computer Language Benchmarks Game?

2017-06-25 Thread sky_khan
My alternative list 1. Reaching 1.0 stability 2. Reaching 1.0 stability 3. Reaching 1.0 stability forget standard lib, forget 3rd party (popular or not) packages and documentation. Think compiler only. Because they all would need to change if you keep changing core language features, li

Re: Add Nim to The Computer Language Benchmarks Game?

2017-06-25 Thread Nibbler
Hey jlp765, I noticed that the benchmarks game website actually has a page somewhere explaining that they are not going to add Crystal, Nim and other new and upcoming languages ("so please stop asking" they say). The suggestion from the creator is that you make your own website for those langua

Add Nim to The Computer Language Benchmarks Game?

2017-06-25 Thread jlp765
@def has written [Nim code](https://github.com/def-/nim-benchmarksgame) for most of the benchmarks in [The Computer Language Benchmarks Game](https://forum.nim-lang.org/benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/) Is it worth everyone checking to see if the code can be improved, and then submitting this