[racket] Computer Language Benchmark Game

From: Isaac Gouy (igouy2 at yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Feb 16 17:57:30 EST 2012

Eli Barzilay <eli at ...> writes:
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> > seems to be measuring gmp performance rather than racket's...
> 
> Yes, it's unfortunate, but that's what practically everyone does.


There's even a Racket program that doesn't use GMP!

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/program.php?test=pidigits&lang=racket&id=1



> BTW₂, the whole shootout thing is generally biased and almost
> completely useless for drawing any kind of conclusions.  Really.
> (I mean it in a stronger sense than usual benchmark disclaimers.)


"generally biased"? 

Is there some way you think that differs from kindergarten name-calling?


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