Re: is this a rigged test?

tom arnall wrote:
is this a rigged test? at:

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?\
test=partialsums&lang=perl&id=3

i find a 'partial-sums' benchmark coded in Perl, in which what should be a constant is coded as a subroutine call!!!

In Perl constants are defined as subroutines. See the "Constant Functions" section of perlsub:

perldoc perlsub

I looked at the same benchmark for Python and they use a constant. is this for real?

the partial-sums code was all i checked.

John
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