It's Really Just That Bad

And then ChatGPT will learn on this data and will recommend you Fortran as fastest language ever

"100 is one of the largest number known to man" Chat never disappoint

The funniest thing, I asked chatGPT to "create a levenshtein benchmark in fortran"... ChatGPT also had the 100 len limit. So it looks like the fortran code was largely a copy and paste job.

The Fortran code had the right idea; you gotta wow them with your blazing speed and then tell them that comparison past the first 100 chars of the string is only available in the premium version

10:13 Compiler-explorer maintainer here, the colors are indeed random. Please note (1) we also have intra-line red highlights (hover over an assembly instruction to see), (2) the correspondence is made using debug info - so (at least for optimized builds) take it with a grain of salt.

The reveal was awesome. Love the build-up

I love that this video has 4k quality option but still looks like 480p in any quality anyway

What would actually be nice is a competitive event where fans of these programming languages try to produce the most performant program for a given case, and we can see who wins in different scenarios.

I had a professor who once told me "A bad-enough programmer can write fortran in any language"

The pure assembly version of it is probably faster but we're not sure because the guy isn't finished with it for another 3 months.