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    1. Patrick Walton‏ @pcwalton Jan 6
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      Are we seriously benchmarking programming languages based on the number of syscalls Hello World takes now

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      Patrick Walton‏ @pcwalton Jan 6
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      I wish people creating these things realized that all they're doing is creating make-work for compiler engineers, making them work on vanity metrics instead of actually useful features.

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        2. Patrick Walton‏ @pcwalton Jan 6
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          So I actually strace'd hello world in Rust. Most of the syscalls are just from http://ld.so , and so could be eliminated with static linking if you cared. The remainder are for stack guards, which are an important security feature.

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        3. Patrick Walton‏ @pcwalton Jan 6
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          Publishing benchmarks like this just encourages language runtimes to not do important things like set up stack guards, harming safety/security. It's irresponsible.

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        1. Michael Haufe‏ @mlhaufe Jan 6
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          Hence HQ9+ https://web.archive.org/web/20090602074545/http://www.cliff.biffle.org/esoterica/hq9plus.html …

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        1. Greg Fitzgerald‏ @garious14 Jan 7
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          Why compete in a foolish competition? That benchmark may have been created to poke fun at VMs.

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        1. Thaddee Tyl‏ @espadrine Jan 7
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          A vote for microbenchmarks measuring assembly code instead of timing information.

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