[Melbourne-pm] Timer::HiRes and alarms?

Daniel Pittman daniel at rimspace.net
Thu Nov 11 14:39:10 PST 2010


Sam Watkins <sam at nipl.net> writes:
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:04:49PM +1100, Mathew Robertson wrote:

>> complete and utter hogwash.
>>
>> The algorithm is the important part, not the programming language.
>
> Yes, the algorithm is most important, but given a C program with a good
> algorithm and a perl program with the same good algorithm, my money is on
> the C program, as it will have time to explore perhaps 100 times more
> possibilities in the game tree.
>
> Now go wash a hog!

It would be real nice if y'all could stick to being polite on the list,
avoiding language bashing (in any direction), and if y'all insist on
performance claims then supply some numbers as proof.

Thanks,
       for the committee for the reduction of pointless flames,
               Daniel

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