Re: Comparisons and Benchmarking

Sid Touati <SidTouati@inria.fr>
Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:21:09 +0200

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From: Sid Touati <SidTouati@inria.fr>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:21:09 +0200
Organization: INRIA - CR Paris-Rocquencourt
References: 09-10-016
Keywords: benchmarks
Posted-Date: 19 Oct 2009 21:14:15 EDT

Comparing between programming languages is like comparing between
natural human languages: it is a complex mixture of culture, history,
economical power, trading protocols, and so on.


If you are forced to provide a quantitative comparison between two
languages, you will highly be in troubles !
- measure expressiveness of a language: depends on the application domain
- measure the performance of the code: depends on the compiler, on the
machine, on the code (implementation) and on the experimental protocol
- measure the popularity: depends on the users (on their educational level)
- measure the profitability: how much do we gain if we go from my actual
language to your language - how much we loose ?
- measure the simplicity: what are the tools that are developed for the
language, what is the education level needed for using your language, etc.
- portability : what can I do with my all previous codes ?


And so on.


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