[Shootout-list] Safety vs. speed

[Brian Hurt]

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Einar Karttunen wrote:

> I think the tests *should* note implementors when they have to be
> wary of overflow. 

Why stop at just this feature?  Personally, of all the features I look at 
in a language, wether or not integer overflows are a problem is way down 
on my list (most of the time that I'm counting things with integers, I'm 
hitting other limitations long before I'm overflowing integers).

Things like wether a language is garbage collected, wether it has strong 
static typing and type inference, what the main paradigm of the language 
is, etc.- these are much more important features.

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