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Exactly. You've said it yourself - you cannot rely on the results to tell if a language is faster than another. That was the original context of my claim, and you are admitting it yourself.
I said - "You can rely on the results." Please say what you mean by "a language is faster than another". Please say what in The Java™ Language Specification tells us that " language is faster than another." http://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se7/html/index.html
Exactly. You can't use the results to say that one language is faster than another. It doesn't even make sense.
(That's the context of the conversation, see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4851781)