Re: Comparisons and Benchmarking

Paul Biggar <paul.biggar@gmail.com>
Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:30:08 +0100

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From: Paul Biggar <paul.biggar@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:30:08 +0100
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 09-10-016 09-10-021
Keywords: benchmarks, design
Posted-Date: 20 Oct 2009 21:46:08 EDT

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:12 AM, Hans-Peter Diettrich
<DrDiettrich1@aol.com> wrote:
> IMO algorithms are so language independent, that they may boil down to
> the very same machine code, regardless of the used language and compiler.


This is only true if you take a very narrow view of language
implementations. Of the "most popular" languages today, lets suppose
C, C++, Java, PHP, C#, VB, and Javascript, I would say that there
exist only C and C++ implementations which could be expected to
execute the very same machine code at run-time, even for simple
algorithms. It would be tough to expect different interpreters, JITs,
managed languages and virtual machines to execute a program similarly.


Paul


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