DAdahart·Mar 30, 2019
This is unfortunately pure speculation on top of pure speculation, which is the problem I have with the top comment. You’re assuming incompetence when you could just go look it up. Why assume it’s someone who doesn’t know? Why use that to wander off into rant land about prejudices and make broad claims that internet benchmarks are bad, when you admit to having zero idea what the actual specific problem here is?
The test that lowered TypeScript’s score in the paper is called fannkuch-redux, and here are the sources in question:
https://github.com/greensoftwarelab/Energy-Languages/blob/ma...
https://github.com/greensoftwarelab/Energy-Languages/blob/ma...
They are both contributed by the same person, and there is no bubble sort involved. So now you know.
I don’t see an obvious reason one would be slower, but they’re also quite different. May
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be the algorithmic complexity is different. Maybe the cross-compilation is doing something bad with memory allocation. Note the input sizes for this test are very small, it would be easy for a difference in temporary variables the compiler injects to cause a serious problem.
What is not obvious is any prejudice, malice, or incompetence.