PERL Beginners - is this a rigged test?

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is this a rigged test?

Tom Arnall

2007-12-30, 7:01 pm

is this a rigged test? at:

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?\
test=partialsums&lang=perl&id=3

i find a 'partial-sums' benchmark coded in Perl, in which what should be a
constant is coded as a subroutine call!!! I looked at the same benchmark for
Python and they use a constant. is this for real?

the partial-sums code was all i checked.

tom arnall
arcata

John W. Krahn

2007-12-30, 10:02 pm

tom arnall wrote:
> is this a rigged test? at:
>
> http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?\
> test=partialsums&lang=perl&id=3
>
> i find a 'partial-sums' benchmark coded in Perl, in which what should be a
> constant is coded as a subroutine call!!!

In Perl constants are defined as subroutines. See the "Constant
Functions" section of perlsub:

perldoc perlsub

> I looked at the same benchmark for
> Python and they use a constant. is this for real?
>
> the partial-sums code was all i checked.

John
--
Perl isn't a toolbox, but a small machine shop where you
can special-order certain sorts of tools at low cost and
in short order. -- Larry Wall

Isaac Gouy

2007-12-31, 7:01 pm

On Dec 30, 5:37 pm, kloro2...@gmail.com (Tom Arnall) wrote:
> is this a rigged test? at:
>
> http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?\
> test=partialsums&lang=perl&id=3
>
> i find a 'partial-sums' benchmark coded in Perl, in which what should be a
> constant is coded as a subroutine call!!! I looked at the same benchmark for
> Python and they use a constant. is this for real?
>
> the partial-sums code was all i checked.
>
> tom arnall
> arcata

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