I don't need music, photos, games, internet browsing, or any type of entertainment/media, etc. I'm looking at products like the iPad and its relatives, but the thing is they have all these features I don't need such as apps and whatnot.I just want to be able to write on the tablet like a piece of paper, then upload the notes to my computer. This approach would have the advantage, that scripting language users would merely have to look up the implementation requirements as described in a particular benchmark item, so that they could contribute customized versions of each benchmark.Īnd once people actually start using this system, the system itself would be flexible enough to be easily enhanced, be it by refinements to certain tets, or completely new tests that highlight the strengths of a particular language in a certain area/domain.I'm looking to buy a tablet to take notes at school, because I write much faster than I type and I don't want the clutter of physical loose leaf paper or go through the trouble of transcribing my notes onto the computer, not to mention having to draw diagrams with my mouse which is a nightmare.
Such a benchmark "profile" could then be versioned, either using a conventional version number, date or year to enable developers to more easily refer to it, so that a statement like "language x performs the hash lookup test as described in the benchmark profile 06/2009 within 3500 ms".
So, this really wouldn't be so much about contributing the corresponding tests (source code) for each language, but rather about determining a suite of tests that would be suitable to illustrate performance in important areas.
So that volunteers who'd like to measure performance, could refer to the benchmark suite and implement individual tests, like for example calculating a series of fibonacci numbers, heavy object instantiation, nested loops, vector/hash lookups etc. Such a benchmark suite would preferably also be determined by community members. In addition, it would be really interesting to follow up on the original idea which was about conceiving some sort of semi-standardized benchmark suite to help measure performance of each candidate. It would be important to cover a broad spectrum, given that developers usually have very differing requirements and constraints, so this wouldn't be meant to become an utopic discussion about "the best" language, but rather about the major strengths & weaknesses of the main candidates. I don't know if anything like this was ever implemented, however realizing that there's now a wiki here at GD.net, I was wondering if there's any interest in implementing something like this?įor starters, this could be really pretty simple - like some sort of chart which would contain the most relevant details about all mainstream scripting language candidates. major pros&cons (as determined by the community) This would be mostly about relevant information such as: About two years ago, a couple of users discussed the idea of providing some sort of comparison chart and benchmark suite for the major scripting languages that are candidates for embedded use.