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Subject: Re: 10 rules for benchmarking (was Re: Teaching new tricks to anold
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Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 23:04:29 +0000 (UTC)
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Jean-Pierre Rosen wrote:
> 
> Blindly claiming that C is faster than Ada is not supported by hard figures.

Indeed. It's like claiming that English is faster than Spanish.

Languages are not implementations.