Richards bench benchmark

[Duncan Lissett]

Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> wrote in message news:<jLCdnW28-PB6cfXdRVn-iQ at powergate.ca>...

> There's a hint on http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/mr/Bench.html
> (Martin's own page on the subject) which suggests ("designed for the
> comparison of System Implementation Languages") that this is not
> a suitable benchmark for Python anyway.  Python doesn't normally
> get used in that domain, and it might be it can't even do what
> is required without resorting to C extensions...

That would be sad, given that language implementors have used Bench to
explore the performance characteristics of Smalltalk and Self and
Java.

"Benchmarking Java with the Richards benchmark"
http://research.sun.com/people/mario/java_benchmarking/richards/richards.html