On 2010-06-15, Aaron W. Hsu <arcf...@sacrideo.us> wrote: > I've heard it said, it is easy to beat C compilers for fast code, it's > just hard to beat them at benchmarks written for C. That is, do the same > type of things as what Scheme gives you, such as lots of dynamic > allocation and resizing, higher order functions, and closures, and you > won't find C faster.
I don't know about that... It's hard to beat the speed of a program that segfaults immediately. ;) It's hardly fair if you're going to demand that the C program actually works correctly. -- Grant -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list