Back in April 2010, Russ Cox charitably suggested that only fannkuch-redux, fasta, k-nucleotide, mandlebrot, nbody, reverse-complement and spectral-norm were close to fair comparisons. As someone who implemented programming languages, his interest was “measuring the quality of the generated code when both compilers are presented with what amounts to the same program.”
Read more: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/fastest/csharp.html