Richards bench benchmark

[Duncan Lissett]

Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> wrote in message news:<fdydnbG_3Ow4gxbdRVn-hg at powergate.ca>...

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> I'll make a prediction: with an hour or two of work, any
> good Python programmer can get a 10x speedup out of the
> program.  I don't know how meaningful it will be as a
> benchmark at that point, but it is probably fair to compare
> with the object-oriented versions which already violate the
> original specification (e.g. the Java version, and the
> Smalltalk ones Duncan mentioned).

There are now separate pages for the Richards implementations that
stick to the spec, and for the object-oriented variant.
So the other languages shown with Python are solving the same problem
in the same way.

http://www.lissett.com/ben/bench3.htm