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Has anybody thought to submit some benchmarks to the Benchmarks Game? I know that benchmarks aren't perfect, but would be nice to at least have an idea of how it stacks up against some of the other languages.

[0] https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/

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https://github.com/def-/nim-benchmarksgame

fwiw A couple of those task names are for older tasks which have been replaced by: fannkuch-redux, regex-redux: and there are other changes which don't seem to have been mirrored.

I don't think they accept new languages anymore.

Indeed. They even specifically named Nim in their FAQ[1]:

> Why don't you include language X?

> Because I know it will take more time than I choose. Been there; done that.

> Measurements of "proggit popular" programming language implementations like Crystal and Nim and Julia will quickly attract attention and be the basis of yet another successful website (unlike more Fortran or Ada or Pascal or Lisp).

1 - https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

As-always they choose some and not others.

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