I ran into similar issue few years ago where lack of knowledge combined with large amount of fanboyism clouded someones mind. In a popular language comparisons site there was a threading benchmark. It was simple, just start 256 threads. Haskell beat C by far.
I did strace. The C benchmark actually spawned 256 threads and the Haskell one spawned 4. The response I got was that it's a builtin feature in Haskell that it uses lightweight threads internally. And because pthread doesn't do that you cannot do it in C and therefore the comparison is valid. Even though C doesn't have the concept of threading and everything must be done with an external library in anycase.
I could dig the old thread up but I've given up with those. I have nothing against high level languages, I use them a lot. However I find it very weird that some true fans feel the need of creating enormously biased benchmarks and then being proud that those benchmarks show that their favourite language is the best.
I did strace. The C benchmark actually spawned 256 threads and the Haskell one spawned 4. The response I got was that it's a builtin feature in Haskell that it uses lightweight threads internally. And because pthread doesn't do that you cannot do it in C and therefore the comparison is valid. Even though C doesn't have the concept of threading and everything must be done with an external library in anycase.
I could dig the old thread up but I've given up with those. I have nothing against high level languages, I use them a lot. However I find it very weird that some true fans feel the need of creating enormously biased benchmarks and then being proud that those benchmarks show that their favourite language is the best.