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I agree. That's really not usefull comparision. They should create categories for each benchmark, like:

  - very naive code (shortest, most readable & easy to write code)

  - idiomatic code

  - optimized code without other-language-libs wrappers and without SIMD, single threaded

  - optimized code without other-language-libs wrappers and without SIMD, multi-threaded

  - optimized code without other-language-libs wrappers and with SIMD and/or multi-threaded

  - optimized code with other-language-libs wrappers allowed and any other optimization technique


You are free to take the data, create whatever categories you want and publish.


How would that undo the unfair comparison done in the benchmark game?


1. Not “unfair”.

2. We wouldn’t look at the benchmarks game if we thought an alternative presentation was more useful.




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