About benchmarks ... I've been there and it's not benchmarks that decide whether something succeeds or fails. (I found this old discussion <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.lisp/pF_wjA_A9fc> which mentions FIB (also TAK <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tak_(function)>, which is rather more brutal) ... do you recognize the language that got an implementation that was competitive with C in performance, was vastly more expressive, yet failed to catch on?)
OTOH, good performance is never a bad thing and sometimes is a necessity; so I applau this work. On 28 January 2016 at 01:39, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 28 January 2016 at 18:30, INADA Naoki <songofaca...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Please stop. > > > > I'm sorry about messing up this thread. > > Not your fault at all! This is just a particular bugbear of mine, > since software architecture design (including appropriate programming > language selection) is an even more poorly understood discipline than > software development in general :) > > > I just wanted to represent why I'm very interested in Victor's efforts. > > And thanks for posting that, as it is indeed cool that the > optimisation efforts currently being discussed may result in > performance improvements on some of the simplified micro-benchmarks > popular in programming language shootouts. > > There's no way you could have anticipated the subsequent tangential > discussion on motives for contributing to open source projects, and > the impact that has on what we can reasonably expect from fellow > contributors. > > Cheers, > Nick. > > -- > Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/pludemann%40google.com >
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