Make sure it's actually Cooks' content and not something they just lifted from another site :|

My wife was the company nurse in a training outfit I attended in the 90s. Her "guitar" caught my eye too.

Exactly. Commonalities are just a useful pretext/rationalization for starting a conversation.

I wonder how many new Chrome users used to be Firefox users.

I'm using the beta Chrome. Sometimes I miss Firefox, and beta Chrome is crashy (often due to some clipboard copy+paste on Vista).

Yeah I wondered this too. I use to use FF as my main browser but switched to Chrome. I still have/use FF for testing and to use certain plug-ins but Chrome is my main ride now. Would be nice I it came out for ipad/iPhone sometime.

At least one.

Even if this turned out to be a real product, they'd probably just claim that it was just a joke now.

He'll never get anything done. This is not a good thing, people.

Really? It seems to me when the FCC gets something done, it fines TV stations for offending someone, grants media companies bigger monopolies, or oversteps their authority by trying to introduce the broadcast flag. Do we really want them to get something done?

Translate please -

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all...

The white bars are time, the black bars are memory usage. Ergo, in most cases, PHP is running 2-5x faster than Ruby, but using about 3x as much memory.

Memory usage can probably be attributed to how PHP manages memory (hint: It /almost/ doesn't).

Right.

Outlying results have to do with that whatever that specific benchmark concerns, e.g. thread startup cost.

> e.g. thread startup cost

There are 2 which require threads, there's no PHP program for either of those so why do you think "thread startup cost" has any relevance?

I wasn't stating which the outliers test, I was saying how to read the graph.

If that was your intention it's strange that as an example you suggested something that is not shown on the graph.

> in most cases

In 9/15 cases PHP is >= 2x faster In 6/15 cases PHP uses less memory

Thanks for being so pedantic for us. We understand how valuable your time is, and it's quite flattering that you chose to spend it on catching and correcting microscopic ambiguities in our discussions that might have otherwise gone undiscovered.

Thanks for offering help to rlachenal.

As the webpage states "a white bar shows which language implementation had the better time, and a black bar shows which had the better memory use".

More flattery - in context "most" is not ambiguous, it's vague.

As you are saying how to read the graph, a specific example will be more helpful than a vague summary.