[Shootout-list] Dispatch benchmark questions

[Isaac Gouy]

--- José Bollo <jose.bollo at tele2.fr> wrote:
> > Having a "virtual method" test always seemed like a bad idea, and
> > at least in this specific case it was a bad idea. Dispatch has been
> > dispatched to The Sandbox.
> 
> Can you explain why the idea of testing "virtual methods" seems bad?

I wasn't able to invent a test that worked across different kinds of
language and wasn't incredibly contrived - dispatch made no sense for
procedural languages or functional languages.

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/shootout-list/2005-April/001465.html
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/shootout-list/2005-April/001473.html

(Eiffel performs well on other tests.)

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