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You can rely on the results, the results are what they claim to be on the home page -- "the time taken for this task, by this program, when compiled with this compiler, with these options, on this machine, with these workloads."

> Feel free to make a claim...

The only point of "this dance" was to help people understand that you are putting words into my mouth.



Exactly. You've said it yourself - you cannot rely on the results to tell if a language is faster than another. That was the original context of my claim, and you are admitting it yourself.


I said - "You can rely on the results."

Please say what you mean by "a language is faster than another".

Please say what in The Java™ Language Specification tells us that "language is faster than another."

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se7/html/index.html


Exactly. You can't use the results to say that one language is faster than another. It doesn't even make sense.

(That's the context of the conversation, see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4851781)


>> You can't use the results to say that... <<

That's a different claim.

>> It doesn't even make sense <<

That depends on what `notJim` meant by "to compare speeds of programming languages".

`notJim` might have thought that everyone would understand he was talking about particular language implementations and particular tasks and particular programs.




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