Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> http://augustss.blogspot.com/2007/11/benchmarking-ray-tracing-haskell-vs.html

  That's the problem with trying to "benchmark" different languages against
each other: Is your implementation of the task in a given language optimal,
or at the very least, fair?

  It's easy to make a completely sub-par implementation of an algorithm
in a language and then make a much better implementation in another and
then conclude that the latter language is "faster" than the former.

  In most languages you simply have to know how things should be done
for them to be efficient. You have to know the bottlenecks. Just because
some feature seems the "most logical" one doesn't necessarily mean it's
the proper feature for that task.

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                                                          - Warp

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