On Sat, 2016-08-06 at 22:04 -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On 8/5/2016 7:02 AM, qznc wrote: > > > > Ultimately, my opinion is that the benchmark is outdated and not > > useful today. I > > ignore it, if anybody cites the benchmark game for performance > > measurements. > > Yeah, I wouldn't bother with it, either.
Since so much effort has gone into constructing wierd and wonderful implementations just to gain speed on the one platform, yes the game itself is long past it real usefulness. If it reverted to programmer friendly algorithmic expression with a view to performance, then the problems and the game would become relevant again. I cannot see this happening, sadly. In the end a bit of X10 or Chapel code running on a Blue Gene ro Cray is going to annihilate any code written in Fortran, FORTRAN, C++, C, or any other language for performance. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@winder.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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