How not to benchmark different languages

posted by  hjwin (10)  8 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

I've recently been trolling the web for any sort of language-comparision benchmarks, to see how the CLR's JIT stacks up to the competition.  Dr. Dobbs has what seemed to be a pretty reasonable micro-benchmark article.  It's not particularly insightful, but hey, it is hard to come up with stuff that makes sense to compare across multiple disparate languages.  I started looking for specific C# to Java comparisons and came upon this little