[Shootout-list] Weekly Update

[Isaac Gouy]

> > imo adding a test to show-off the strengths of a language is not
> > keeping the spirit of honest comparison. It's simple advocacy.
> 
> No.
> Limiting our tests to tasks that play to C's strengths is unfair.

Is it possible that C's strengths cover some quite common tasks? ;-)

> Asking C and other languages to do something real people have to do
on
> a daily basis (such as handle thousands of web requests, or process
> PBX interchange) is reasonable.

Perhaps - but no one has suggested adding programs for those things.

imo We should take a hard look at the existing tests.

We already have 2 tests which don't sensibly apply across all the
languages - object instantiation and method calls. (Mea Culpa - I did
the Clean implementations.) 

Having Clean and GCC and Erlang implementations of OO tests is
wonderfully silly :-) Those implementations only exist for CRAPS rankings.


	
		
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