On Thursday, 9 June 2016 at 13:56:37 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
On Thursday, 9 June 2016 at 13:52:38 UTC, Dave wrote:
But it is the point of benchmarking
So it's not "languages should be fast by default", but
"benchmarks should be fast by default"?
Well, _this_ took some weird leaps from what I actually said...
The point is this sort of language benchmark should use normal
code. The sort of code that people who've never heard of Haskell
would write.
If it's a "fast" language, "ordinary-looking" code should be
fast. If being fast requires weird circumlocutions that barely
anyone knows, it doesn't matter if experts consider it best
practice.
-Wyatt
