Jeremy Zerfas

> I am not missing the point. What if a sportsman, say a runner, have more money and hires a better trainer and use better training facilities and becomes faster?...

> I can’t be though with you at the moment to altogether disallow using external libraries since one language might have lot of thing in the standard library that in...

> But as far as I know those two benchmarks were specifically developed to test arbitrary precision math and regular expression operations. That brings us back to my original issue,...

> > slightly over half the programming languages in these benchmarks now have built-in support for arbitrary precision math. I've pretty sure regular expression support is even better. > >...

> But if we limit the use of libraries to same language ones only than the above problem just vanishes. That wouldn't make all of the above problems vanish, it...

> I did get your point from the beginning but this logic leads us to not allowing the use of any libraries whatsoever since even the standard libraries if written...

It looks like Lisp (and Fortran and Haskell) was disabled in [this commit](https://github.com/hanabi1224/Programming-Language-Benchmarks/commit/346f15483aeb70dbf8ba77c9f0d38b3dbbfc006a#diff-a5e740be96415373789689f814583e93ff2a8f05eae6481e94505fd6cb6bc6a7R37) and in that commit [the README file was changed](https://github.com/hanabi1224/Programming-Language-Benchmarks/commit/346f15483aeb70dbf8ba77c9f0d38b3dbbfc006a#diff-b335630551682c19a781afebcf4d07bf978fb1f8ac04c6bf87428ed5106870f5R26) to say that the Programming Language and compiler...

> note: > we need simple operation on loop like a+=4 so the optimizer of language 'dont cheat' the output, because empty operation might make some language optimizer skip loop...