About calculator benchmark (8 queens) and fast devices. MS challenge #2

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(05-03-2017 09:18 PM)Helix Wrote:  The main limitation of this benchmark in my opinion is the use of integers exclusively, which greatly favors some languages. As soon as there are some calculations with reals, this benchmark is grossly misleading.

I see nothing misleading here, because it's a question of correct interpretation of the test and the results.
The intention of choosing n-queens was to have an integer benchmark with array access to have a fairly realistic
comparison for this type of programming problems and not testing the floating point funtions, what others did before.
IMHO transcendental functions are not well suited for testing the efficiency of a programming language. It's true, that
n-queens strongly favours languages with integer support, but that can be said for all types of integer only problems.
Your examples show clearly that there cannot be one overall benchmark.