On 4/28/11, Alexander <aldem+dm...@nk7.net> wrote: > On 28.04.2011 13:24, Robert Clipsham wrote: > >> I also notice lots of nested for loops in some of the tests, which should >> be using slice operations really. > > This is the whole point of benchmarking, IMHO - to see how good > compiler/optimizer (and VM, if any) are - for (almost) same code, same > algorithm.
But then these are not programming >language< benchmarks, they are >compiler< benchmarks. If you can get more performance out of a language with less code and simpler syntax, then that language is better performing in my book.