[fpc-other] Which programming language is fastest?

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Mon, 9 May 2011 15:56:55 -0700 (PDT)
Isaac Gouy <igouy2 at yahoo.com> wrote:

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> --- On Mon, 5/9/11, Mattias Gaertner <nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de> wrote:
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> > I wonder why the Perl median dropped from 46 to 137.
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> It kind-of depends where you got those numbers from :-)
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> 1) Notice that in the blog post ( http://wp.me/puJY-7N ) the blogger has chosen to apply his own weighting to the first table of measurements before combining them into a Geometric Mean.
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> For example, the blogger chose to exclude the regex-dna task but to include the meteor-contest thread-ring and chameneos-redux tasks.
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> Did you get 46 from the first table in the blog post? (weighted Geometric Mean including memory use)

yes

 
> 2) The default weighting excludes thread-ring and chameneos-redux (now there are threaded programs for the other tasks, those tasks seem very artificial); and excludes meteor-contest because it's a contest.
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> The default weighting is used for the second table of inter-quartile and median summary statistics.
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> Did you get 137 from the second table in the blog post? (Median)

yes

Thanks.

Mattias