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0 pointsFartyMcFarter5y ago0 comments

> I wouldn't be surprised if there's something similar happening here.

In this case it seems like benchmark code is allowed to use intrinsics, which can degenerate into a situation where a benchmark in language X is more "glorified x86 Assembly code" than actual code in language X.

This is not very useful for comparing languages IMO. Especially since all of Rust, C, C++ can use this strategy and become almost identical in both code and performance.

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gameswithgo5y ago

So three languages with identical performance ceilings end up with essentially identical performance results. sounds like a job well done.

if you want to know something more than that, like how performance tends to end up after inputs of identical effort and talent you will need to recruit a lot of people and money to run really large scale experiments and when you are done people on HN will just endlessly find nits to pick with your results whenever they don’t agree with their preconceived notions

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0 pointsFartyMcFarter5y ago0 comments

> I wouldn't be surprised if there's something similar happening here.

This is not very useful for comparing languages IMO. Especially since all of Rust, C, C++ can use this strategy and become almost identical in both code and performance.

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gameswithgo5y ago

So three languages with identical performance ceilings end up with essentially identical performance results. sounds like a job well done.

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