I've programmed computers at a low level, and lifted weights for the past 21 years (and in fact, read some actual papers about weight lifting, and failed to make the aforementioned complaint). The Eleikos of today feel basically like the Yorks of yesteryear.
On the other hand, the processors of 2000 are quite a bit different to the processors of 2011, and anyone who thinks that they can prove that this is irrelevant to the experiment in question by pure reasoning (rather than experimentation) is a moron, plain and simple.
Having tracked individual embodiments of algorithms over architectures from the P4 to Sandy Bridge, I can assure you that tradeoffs between particular approaches on an given problem vary wildy based on changes in microarchitecture.
Overall, there's a steady improvement and perhaps these languages are all gaining exactly the same (despite a substantial improvement in effective ILP from P4 to Core 2)... but I don't know that for sure and neither do you, despite your sophomoric self-assurance.
If only they could do the experiments on a processor from the last 5-6 years...naturally someone else could do the work for them, but why bother?
On the other hand, the processors of 2000 are quite a bit different to the processors of 2011, and anyone who thinks that they can prove that this is irrelevant to the experiment in question by pure reasoning (rather than experimentation) is a moron, plain and simple.
Having tracked individual embodiments of algorithms over architectures from the P4 to Sandy Bridge, I can assure you that tradeoffs between particular approaches on an given problem vary wildy based on changes in microarchitecture.
Overall, there's a steady improvement and perhaps these languages are all gaining exactly the same (despite a substantial improvement in effective ILP from P4 to Core 2)... but I don't know that for sure and neither do you, despite your sophomoric self-assurance.
If only they could do the experiments on a processor from the last 5-6 years...naturally someone else could do the work for them, but why bother?