[Shootout-list] Re: Integer overflow

[Isaac Gouy]

> > languages that relegate threads to second class
> > citizenship (by only allowing few of them, or by 
> > making themimpractically slow) should come 
> > out worse in a good threads creation test. so i
> > favour a test with many threads.
> 
> This is a valid point.

It just goes back to:
- is this to be a test of concurrency
- is this to be a test of massive concurrency

Creating 100 threads/processes may be costly in some languages.


> This is not unfair; or, at least it is no more unfair
> than Erlang, Clean, or Scheme competing in the Object
> Instantiation test.  :-)

Bengt and I seem to agree that having non-OO languages in OO language
benchmarks is silly.


		
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