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by igouy 1754 days ago
> … a Go developer would write the extra ~dozen lines…

And a C# developer could write a program that would avoid GC, and a Java developer…, and…

It feels like you're hell-bent on using this thread for your personal programming language holy war…

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> And a C# developer could write a program that would avoid GC, and a Java developer…, and…

Are those idiomatic? If so, then they should be permitted to apply those optimizations. Again, the whole point of benchmarks is to indicate real-world use.

> It feels like you're hell-bent on using this thread for your personal programming language holy war…

I've reiterated my substantial point over and over again ("contrived rules don't indicate real world use, which is the definitional purpose of benchmarks") and you still haven't addressed it. But in any case, perhaps if both of us think the other is waging a holy war, it's an indicator that the thread has run its course.