On Monday 19 August 2002 09:02 am, Xavier Leroy wrote:
> * http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/ is a (rare) example of a
>   non-stupid inter-language performance comparison.

What?! The cluelessness of the "shootout" is beyond belief. Let me quote e.g. 
http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/bench/lists/ 

<quote>
Please Note: this test is due for an overhaul. I would like to have 2 lists 
tests, one that tests single-linked list functions, and one that tests 
double-linked list (deque) functions. 
</quote>

Are there people here who do not know that deque == double-ended queue <> 
"double-linked list" ?

If you were to look at the O'Caml and C++ programs for the "list" comparison 
in the shootout, you'd see that the C++ version uses bona fide doubly-linked 
lists (the ones that allow fast inserstion in the middle), while the O'Caml 
version uses pre-allocated Array.t in this "list" comparison.

Oleg
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