Re: Nice performance quote

[Don Hopkins <dhopkins@...>]

Roberto Waltman wrote:
> > Matthew M. Burke wrote:
> > > I stumbled across the following article about scripting languages:
> > > http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/04/16/16FEscriptinglimits_1.html
> > ...
> > | Java runs at 1.8 times the speed of compiled C; Lua (using a JIT 
> > compiler),
> > | at 3 times; Python, at 6.7 times; PHP, at 7 times; Perl, at 9.8 
> > times; and
> > | Ruby, at 16 times.
> >
> > Can anyone else spot the subtle flaw in this statement?
>
> A not so subtle 1/X ?
>
> Roberto Waltman
By that metric, it means that a program that never terminates is 
infinitely faster than C!
That transforms the "Halting Problem" into the "Halting Advantage"!

I once heard a rumor that the Cray X/MP was so fast, it could execute an 
infinite loop in 12.7 seconds!

   -Don