[Shootout-list] Directions of various benchmarks

[skaller]

On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 04:59, Jon Harrop wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 May 2005 07:23, skaller wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 14:02, Jon Harrop wrote:
> > > Why does the OCaml implementation of regex current use Markus' PCRE
> > > rather than OCaml's built-in Str module?
> >
> > Perhaps it doesn't, but the point is the same: we're not
> > testing the language involved in ANY of these cases,
> > in all cases we're comparing C libraries.
> 
> I disagree: such benchmarks would test languages. They test the language's 
> interfaces to C libraries or the parts of the language which happen to be 
> implemented in C.

They would, if they were allowed to interface to external libraries ..