--- bill lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems the benchmark was designed for C.
I'm unsure if you are talking about one particular test or about all the tests shown on the benchmarks game. FAQ What language was used to write each initial benchmark program? http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/faq.php#whatlanguage > I'm skeptical about this benchmark because it shows fortran get rather > poor performance in number crunching and that's counter-intuitive. Let me suggest some other possibilities explanations - the particular Fortran language implementation matters - the way the program was written matters - expectations can be out-of-date or wrong > > If the benchmark is tailored for J then there should be programming > tasks for > each of J's primitive, eg. a problem on sorting an array and /:~ is > an accepted > solution. This benchmark is of course extremely unfair, however if > you can live > without those primitives than you do not need J. :-) > > I once read an email/article quoting APL was not allowed in a > programming exam. > > -- > regards, > bill > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see > http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
