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by z1mm32m4n 3308 days ago
I see that the point of this site is supposed to be that a change in implementation (keeping the language itself held constant) greater affect on performance than rewriting in another language.

My problem with this site it makes poor support of that claim. The data is hidden behind loads of links, and none of the data is visualized at all. Even a few simple bar charts, keeping the hierarchy of the site otherwise unchanged would vastly aid comprehension. The points being made would come across much more easily.

This sort of data is the poster child for visualization, yet this site relegates the data to tables of numbers.

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What on the website tells you that is the point?

>> Even a few simple bar charts <<

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/which-programs-...

>> would vastly aid comprehension. <<

Is it possible that you are just wrong?

Is it possible that simple bar charts do not aid comprehension but encourage thoughtless instant conclusions?