• Isaac Gouy <igouy2 yahoo.com> Nov 01 2010
• Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> Nov 01 2010

Isaac Gouy <igouy2 yahoo.com> writes:

--- On Mon, 11/1/10, Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> wrote:

 From: Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com>
 Subject: Re: The Computer Languages Shootout Game
 To: digitalmars-d puremagic.com
 Date: Monday, November 1, 2010, 11:02 AM
 Isaac Gouy wrote:
 On 10/31/2010 5:13 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
 The thing about that shootout is D used to be on




 maintainer of the site removed it. 


 D still is on there. The maintainer of the site did


 
 http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/measurements.php?lang=dlang


 Thanks, but I don't find any links to that from the home
 page.



The home page shows the current benchmarks game.

The link to the out-of-date measurements is on the help page

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/help.php#history

D is one of the 30 or so language implementations not measured on Q6600 that
were measured on Pentium 4.


(Incidentally if you would prefer D not to be shown in the out-of-date
measurements - because you feel it's unrepresentative of the current state of D
language implementations - just ask for it to be removed.)


 
 He refuses to include D on the benchmarks.


 Being included in the current benchmarks game isn't an


 What I refuse to do is let you guys dictate how I


 
 I'm not happy with your choice, but I don't dictate to you
 or anyone else. It's your site and you can do as you please
 with it.


Maybe someone in the D community will make the effort and produce comparison
performance measurements, and then you can choose to publish them (or not) on
the D website.



      

Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:

Isaac Gouy wrote:
 I'm not happy with your choice, but I don't dictate to you or anyone else.
 It's your site and you can do as you please with it.


 performance measurements, and then you can choose to publish them (or not) on
 the D website.



Nobody would believe benchmarks on the D web site. Heck, I don't believe any 
benchmarks published by the developers of any language.

I was even once accused of literally sabotaging DMC++ in order to make DMD look 
better.