Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl
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From: rbe@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM (Robert Bernecky)
Subject: Re: Quality of Implementation
Message-ID: <1993Feb8.152011.26621@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM>
Keywords: Needless copying, one data point.
Reply-To: rbe@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM (Robert Bernecky)
Organization: Snake Island Research Inc, Toronto
References: <1539@kepler1.rentec.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 93 15:20:11 GMT

In article <1539@kepler1.rentec.com> andrew@rentec.com (Andrew Mullhaupt) writes:
>I have recently posted some comments about the performance problem of
>needless copying, and I have also compared APL and S interpreters
>
>Can anyone suggest a small suite of language independent benchmarks
>which might make for a useful comparison? I would be surprised if

Might I suggest the computation of 42, as laid out in the Hitchhiker's
Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy? That seems to be of adequate complexity,
and is certainly language dependent. 
Bob


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