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On Tue, 23 Mar 2010, Jim Balson wrote:

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|If we were to add another language to our benchmarks, Pascal would be the|
|logical choice."                                                         |
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FORTRAN-77 code on a good machine would be faster if no heap usage is needed.

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|" And we may do it at some point in the future. We're certainly          |
|going to add many more algorithms to the testing as time permits."       |
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Good.