[Shootout-list] Many tests cheat

Isaac Gouy igouy2@yahoo.com
Mon, 1 Nov 2004 17:47:48 -0800 (PST)


> Strangely I get two copies of this mail... which seems to indicate
> one by private email and one from the list.

I also get two emails, so please just reply to the list.

-snip- 
> In fact, if I can't get the *same* performance as C,
> exactly, for array accesses, there is probably a bug
> in the way shootout is doing the measurements, because
> the generated code is *literally* the same as C. 

This truism usually comes up on comp.lang.ada when someone asks if gnat
is as fast as C - it is when it's doing the same thing comes the droll
response.




		
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