[Shootout-list] New benchmark?

[Isaac Gouy]

> > What do the times and memory usage tell us about the languages when
> > entirely different algorithms have been used?
> 
> What do they tell us when the chosen data structure is less efficient
> than another in some given language?  

At most, they tell us that data structure X in language A is more/less
efficient than X in language in language B.


> "What are we really comparing  Languages or Programs; Libraries or 
> Algorithms or Programming Ability?"  

That was intended as an invitation to wonder if we really were managing
to compare languages, not a declaration that we were going to compare algorithms.


		
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