[Shootout-list] Re: C++ pidigits

[Falk Hueffner]

Robert Seeger <rhseeger@gmail.com> writes:

> That was my thought. If we can use external libraries (ie, things
> that are not part of the core language), then the tests are no
> longer valid, imo.

In my opinion the benchmarks are to reflect the typical usage of the
language. In C++, to solve this problem, you'd typically use something
like gmp. In Perl, you'd probably typically *not* use Inline::C.

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	Falk