definitely an interesting plot ... i am firmly in the *"Hell Yes, Use It ..."* camp for the following reason:
program length is at the core of information theory (see work from G. Chaitin ...) if proponents of other languages wish to occupy space near the origin with Julia, then they ought to get busy coding and put forth their best benchmark ... best, cdm On Thursday, December 4, 2014 11:38:20 AM UTC-8, Stefan Karpinski wrote: > > Wow, that's a pretty interesting graph – I'd like to start using something > like that in presentations. Of course, it's bound to be contentious because > no one has really spent any effort on making the benchmark codes terser. In > fact, I was pretty cut-and-paste happy with the initial versions in other > languages because I just wanted to bang out something that worked in each > language, rather than take lots of time to figure out the most elegant way > to time things, for example. >
