[Shootout-list] Directions of various benchmarks

[Isaac Gouy]

--- José Bollo <jose.bollo@tele2.fr> wrote:

> that would be a long debate, here is my humble opinion: relaxing the
> 'same way' will improve the competition and then every implementer
> will copy the algorithm of the fastest realisation. So the 'no same
> way' will tend to 'same way'. BUT what will happen for languages
where
> there is no competitor? Their performances will reduce in the time.
> Not so good then because one has to watch each an other to be in.

Correct - this results in a cycle of rewriting with different
algorithms until programmers become exhausted or bored - it measures
programmer effort.


		
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