On Sep 7, 2011, at 11:15 AM, Rémi Forax wrote: > On 09/07/2011 09:08 AM, John Rose wrote: >> >> On Sep 7, 2011, at 12:00 AM, Per Bothner wrote: >> >>> I assume this is one reason why Kawa's IntNum is (mostly) faster than >>> BigInteger. >> >> Yes, that's probably true. >> >> Here's a dirty secret: As you can see from the OpenJDK sources, BigDecimal, >> but not BigInteger, has this optimization (see private field >> BigDecimal.intCompact). Why BigDecimal but not BigInteger? Because >> specjbb2000 uses BigDecimal. >> >> (OTOH, an imperfect metric like specjbb2000 is far better than no metric at >> all, for driving competition.) > > This remember me that we don't have any benchmarks using dynamic languages > which is, as you explain, not good on the long term. > > What about having 10 to 12 benchs, one by language, provided by each language > runtime developer > as a good bench for their runtime ?
That is a VERY good idea! How about if PHP.reboot contributes the first one? ;-) -- Christian > >> >> -- John > > Rémi > > _______________________________________________ > mlvm-dev mailing list > mlvm-dev@openjdk.java.net > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/mlvm-dev
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