[REBOL] Re: RFC: Cross-language benchmark proposal
From: greggirwin:mindspring at: 8-Nov-2002 10:38
Lots of good ideas flowing here, which brings me back to a question I posted
but that people may not have had a chance to respond to.
What is our goal?
REBOL, being a pure inpterpreter is going to be at a disadvantage in some
areas, but have advantages in others. Benchmarking things like sorting is
nice because you need to do it all the time. If it's native to a language,
it's sort of like benchmarking a compiler's optimizations, except that
you're comparing the compiler used to build the language *and* the design of
the sort function. Only the result matters though. In the case of SORT, you
can have simple and complex tests (e.g. multi-column sorts, sorting a series
of objects or structures, etc.) which may show the various levels of sorting
support in a language.
Maybe the Standard and Custom views are more like a distinction between
academic
and "applied"? The Academic view is like the other shootout, and
the Applied view is comparing how you would actually use it on a daily basis
and how ranks in that context (speed, clarity, etc.).
What do you think?
--Gregg