[REBOL] Re: REBOL Benchmark test?
From: dness:home at: 11-Aug-2001 13:38
Tim Johnson wrote:
> Hello All:
> I hope to be going "commercial" with rebol this fall.
> That is, providing programming services with rebol.
>
> Where, I live rebol is virtually unknown. To convince
> IT managers that I might contract to, that rebol is viable,
> I know that they are going to be looking for testing
> procedures....
>
> Are there benchmark tests available?
>
> I would find that helpful, because if I'm "allowed"
> to use rebol, then I might end up being able to
> bill for as many hours as I code :>)
>
> Comments and codes are welcome...
> Thanks
> Tim
There's nothing wrong in being `armed' with benchmark results, but I'd be
_very_ surprised if some notion of `efficiency' as measured by simple benchmarks
of performance would be of _any_ substantial importance in making programming
services purchase decisions.
Indeed, focussing on such things is largely a sign of naiveté, IMO.
In some `mission critical' applications, performance may be vitally important, but
it strikes me as _highly_ unlikely that anyone would hand over a mission critical
task to anyone without a long established reputation, so I think you are---at least
for awhile---unlikely to be in the running for such jobs.
Sensible managers are likely to spend most of their time worrying about how they
can manage, understand and _support_ particular programming environments. I'd
suggest you prepare yourself to answer along these dimensions rather than with a
bunch of benchmark comparisons.
In other words, think about answering questions like `What happens to the project if
you
get hit by a bus?' rather than `How does the timing of that inner-loop compare to execution
in complied C code?'
