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From: Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.org>
Date: 11 Mar 2005 19:53:34 +0100
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CTips <ctips@bestweb.net> writes:

> BTW - all the psuedo-benchmarking people have done on this thread so far has
> provided meaningless numbers - too small run-times, performance dominated by
> cache misses etc.

And the pseudo results from http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/great/ were fine
to you some days ago :)

> CTips wrote:
>
>> Actually, I can verify that: if I look at the computer shootout
>> http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/great/, I find that gcc C beats gnat Ada
>> pretty much across the board; actually, Ada's performance sucks pretty much
>> across the board. One of gcc C or Intel C is generally among the top few
>> programs, while with a couple of exceptions, Gnat Ada is around the
>> middle. In matrix multiply it gets beaten by LISP, Java, and Python!!! (How
>> can you get beaten by Python? The mind boggles!)

Pascal.

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