[Shootout-list] Safety vs. speed

[Bengt Kleberg]

Brian Hurt wrote:
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> Personally, I think it's beyond Shootout's mandate.  We're not measuring a 
> language's "goodness", just it's "performance".  The performance- how long 
> does the language take to solve certain problems, how much memory, how 
> many lines of code- we can put more or less hard numbers on.  And we can 
> apply the same rules to all languages, and be fair for some loose enough 
> definition of fair.

''life is not fair. show me where it is written that it has to be fair''

the time used is directly related to performance. memory used is 
somewhat related. but i have never seen anybody talk about lines of code 
and performance, in the same sentence (before :-).

lines of code is about maintenance, and development speed.

i think we should keep lines of code. i do not think the shootout is 
only about performance. if i was only interested in performance i would 
not be using erlang :-)


bengt