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Perl is only faster here in nbody because I tricked it. I used a tricky compile-time optimization for faster array index access. You wouldn't do that in the real world, and in the real world PHP, ruby and python are faster. cperl instead is only beaten by PHP. But the benchmark game is not open for faster alternate engines like luajit, nim, crystal, pypy, truffle-graal, ... or even slower ones like Perl6, which limit…
>> a tricky compile-time optimization for faster array index access. And you even comment on that usage in your code. >> Decades ago it was open and written in Perl. Then it was rewritten in Python and closed down. Go figure. At best your comment is disingenuous. You can download the Python measurement scripts, use them with luajit, nim, crystal, pypy, truffle-graal or Perl6 programs and publish the measurements. You…
The problem is not that someone else can do it, the problem is YOU need to do it. You got the name reserved for it, you got the machines to do it, you decide to rewrite it and throw them out, no one is looking somewhere else for better and more benchmarks.
The big competitors with better and faster engines have no incentive to match performance when their name is not on the list, and they just publish their own results. Users don't look somewhere else.