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A crucial point made in the discussions surrounding this benchmark is the need for rigor in benchmark validation. Benchmarks should not be haphazard metrics published without thorough inspection and validation; they need to accurately reflect real-world performance. Unfortunately, many users took the benchmark at face value without further scrutiny, which can lead to misconceptions about the languages in question.
For instance, misconceptions proliferate around the purported 10–40% performance advantage of Fortran over C and Rust, driven by poorly constructed benchmarks. This not only misleads the community but also amplifies biases against newer programming languages that may not warrant their perceived inferiority.