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by pjmlp 96 days ago
Yes they have, because those microbenchmarks are tailor made for the winner, using a very specific compiler implementation with language extensions, which apparently is only valid if the language happens to be "C".
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This is such bizarre cope. It's okay for a language to not have first-class numerical performance characteristics. Langauges can have other reasons to exist. Just don't like about the performance, that doesn't help anyone.