[Shootout-list] Directions of various benchmarks

[Isaac Gouy]

--- skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
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> Yes but the 'performance' measurements are just as difficult.
> On the old shootout I see Felix beating Java on every test --
> as it dang well should, Java is a dog <hehe> -- and suddenly on the
> new Shootout Java is beating the Ocaml native code compiler??? 

Java beats OCaml native on just one benchmark - takfp.
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/great/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=ocaml&lang2=java&sort=fullcpu


> Come on! I did some tests and find Felix comfortable trashes
> gcc on some tests, but gcc with a couple of optimisation switches
> trashes Felix .. what are we *really* measuring?

Programming language implementations 
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/great/faq.php?sort=fullcpu#learn

Maybe gcc has better code optimisation than felix.

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