I actually put together this graph about a year ago for a presentation here at Carnegie Mellon. I took the data from the [great computer shootout benchmarks](http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/), so the idea is that everybody is crowd-sourcing the best solution for their language.
On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 3:02 PM, cdm <cdmclean....@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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. >> >
