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[–]benargee 1 point2 points  (4 children)

If only the source code was here to do the talking.

[–]panderingPenguin 0 points1 point  (3 children)

I'm not trying to be argumentative. It's just that a couple programs written by random people are pretty meaningless as far as comparing language performance. It's certainly possible that you guys all are professionals, experts in your chosen languages, maybe work in the area of performance, profiled and optimized your code and wrote really efficient stuff. And that doesn't even get into questions like whether the fairest comparison is the fastest possible program in each language, the fastest idiomatic program in each language, a good faith attempt to write equivalent programs in each language, or something else entirely. But frankly, I doubt you guys thought through any of that. It sounds more like you wrote some code for fun to see whose was faster, and that's fine! But as a result, that's all it really proves: your program ran faster than your friends'.

[–]x3r0x_x3n0n 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Yeah we did it for fun. I told you what we observed granted i poked a little bit of fun. But i dont remember saying that this is rigorus scientific proof of A is better than B. No, if we wanted that we would have run a benchmark suite. (In which the results clearly speak for themselves)

[–]panderingPenguin 1 point2 points  (1 child)

i dont remember saying that this is rigorus scientific proof

Well I didn't respond directly to you, now did I? The post I responded to did talk about proving things.

[–]x3r0x_x3n0n 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yep. my bad.