Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

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> Of course, the shootout could be improved.  

Of course, anyone interested can do their own more extensive comparisons for a
couple of language implementations, for example - 

http://blog.marketcetera.com/2007/03/08/java-and-the-computer-language-shootout/


> E.g. maybe it could allow
> extra submissions that break the rules, along with a description of
> which rules were broken and how.  
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Page search "alternative" on

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32q/performance.php?test=binarytrees