[sigmaml]

My submission did violate the conditions. I was just recollecting what happened; it is not a complaint.

I am at variance with those conditions, though. I refer to the benchmarks suite itself, broadly. When programs dip into GMP, PCRE, etc., we are no longer comparing the speeds of the different language implementations per se. Now, they are mixed with FFI speeds of those implementations, the choices of the foreign language libraries/algorithms, etc..

In the same vein, as you remark in your second footnote, for a fair comparison, the same algorithm should be used in all programs. That will shed light on the strengths and weaknesses of the different language implementations better. I don't intend to say that the current system is useless; I am saying that using the same set of algorithms is likely to be more illustrative.

[Jweb_Guru]

The point of this benchmark (that you're deliberately ignoring) is actually to have at least one program that realistically shows how bad a language's GC is. Go performs terribly because its GC makes lousy tradeoffs, which is the only reason you're annoyed at its requirements. It's actually probably the best benchmark in the whole set on that site.