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20% is frequently. And calling out to C is cheaty.


https://www.wilfred.me.uk/blog/2014/10/20/the-fastest-bigint...

Look at all the programming language implementations that provide big integers by calling out to GMP. Why would it be "cheating" when available to all and done openly? Libraries matter.

>Most the Debian benchmarks for C# are cheaty too.<

Just name-calling.


In any case, because the charts are frequently cut & pasted out-of-context they should not include pi-digits and regex-redux data. Now they don't, so thank you.

If you don't think it's appropriate to compare the pi-digits and regex-redux programs, simply ignore them and compare the other 8!




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