Re: LuaJIT missing from language shootout benchmarking site
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- Subject: Re: LuaJIT missing from language shootout benchmarking site
- From: Isaac Gouy <igouy2@...>
- Date: 2011年5月20日 14:33:12 -0700 (PDT)
--- On Fri, 5/20/11, Tim Mensch <tim-lua-l@bitgems.com> wrote:
> From: Tim Mensch <tim-lua-l@bitgems.com>
> Subject: Re: LuaJIT missing from language shootout benchmarking site
> To: "Lua mailing list" <lua-l@lists.lua.org>
> Date: Friday, May 20, 2011, 12:03 PM
> On 5/19/2011 12:43 PM, Isaac Gouy
> wrote:
> > It's unfortunate not to notice that those "Which
> programming languages
> > are fastest?" pages, say again-and-again that isn't
> the question being
> > answered.
>
> I can't get to the site at all right now
Everything at http://alioth.debian.org has been down for at least 6 hours.
> You're lying to yourself if you think that a disclaimer means
> that people won't use the benchmark to determine which languages
> are fastest.
After 5 or 6 years tracking people's comments about the benchmarks game, I've probably seen more than my share of misreading, misuse, and general foolishness :-)
otoh I see fewer sweeping generalizations based on 5 line fib programs than in the good olde days.
> And by deciding to exclude LuaJIT, you're deceiving the next
> generation of developers into thinking that Lua isn't a contender
In case you haven't noticed the Lua language is shown.
Your reasoning should apply to the many other language implementations that are not shown - unless your reasoning is just special pleading.