[Jprogramming] Computer [|Language] Benchmarks Game

[Roger Hui]

As a benchmark of J %. is the same today as it was in 1990.



----- Original Message -----
From: Joey K Tuttle <jkt at qued.com>
Date: Saturday, December 8, 2007 13:52
Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Computer [|Language] Benchmarks Game
To: Programming forum <programming at jsoftware.com>

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In talking about this with Roger Hui in the early days of j, I suggested
that maybe using my favorite benchmark was inappropriate to look at j.
He countered by saying that because of the way he had implemented
matrix inverse, using j primitives to code it rather than hand tuned assembler
code as used in mainframe systems, he reckoned it was a pretty fair test.
So I have continued to try it to evaluate systems over the 17 years since
then. I don't know if it is still true that %. is a "fair benchmark",
Roger would have to comment on that....
...