[Shootout-list] hackers vs. PHBs

[Bengt Kleberg]

Isaac Gouy wrote:
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> There are now 11 Lisp & Scheme language implementations included in the
> Shootout. Would Lisp & Scheme seem more competitive if there were fewer
> language implementations but those few implemented more of the
> benchmarks and implemented them well? 
> 

there is a simple solution to that. only allow standard scheme code (ie 
r5rs and srfis) and then choose the fastest implementation (normally 
bigloo?, but sometimes others) to represent scheme, for each test.

it would be similar as to allow different compiler switches in different 
tests.


bengt