[tyingq]

I had the same observation. I'm a Perl fan, but I can see some submissions were solely motivated to make Perl appear competitive. Like using threads in Perl, which isn't often done in real life.

I'm not sure how much evidence is needed. It seems obvious that people who are fans of language X are going to submit code with the sole intention of bumping up performance at any cost.

The site is still interesting, but probably useless for real world decision making.

[segmondy]

Doesn't matter, if you don't use threads in Perl when you could, that's your fault and benchmarks like this serve to remind you should. There are folks who use threads with their Perl code in real life btw

[tyingq]

It's not even enabled in several major distributions. Yes some people do use them. Most don't...it was broken for several releases.