Language comparisons

[Gerhard Häring]

Gerrit Muller wrote:
> 
> Very interesting site benchmarking many different languages w.r.t.
> performance, memory usage and program size. Highly recommended
> 
> http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/

Yes, and we could sniff most of the competitors in the matrix multiplication
benchmark if NumPy were in the standard distribution. I rewrote the matrix mult.
part with NumPy, but it seems as if only those solutions will be accepted that
are not based on external libraries.

Gerhard

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