[Shootout-list] Stuff (wide range of languages, external libraries)

[Isaac Gouy]

--- Brent Fulgham <bfulg@pacbell.net> wrote:
> 
> --- Isaac Gouy <igouy2@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I almost agree with Pascal Obry that "the speed
> > of a method dynamic-binding is quite interesting"
> > - almost. 
> > 
> > The 'interesting' thing is the speed of
> > dynamic-binding relative to static-binding in the 
> > language you're using.
> 
> So let's revise the tests to account for this.
> Perhaps we need two object invocation tests so
> that the performance can be compared.


spectral-norm (alpha) C# Mono #2 uses virtual methods, and
spectral-norm (alpha) C# Mono doesn't - the performance can be
compared.

 
> I've been thinking about the proposal to drop this
> test, and I think we should keep it (or at least
> something like it).  The fact that C or ML may
> not be able to implement this test should just
> mean that it is not part of the CRAPS score (or
> default to zero).

There are very few benchmarks that have really been dropped, most
retire here:
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/old/index.php?sort=fullcpu


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