[Shootout-list] Timing resolution? libbsd-resource-perl

Einar Karttunen ekarttun@cs.helsinki.fi
Sat, 7 Aug 2004 13:56:51 +0300


On 06.08 09:30, Isaac Gouy wrote:
> Maybe we should increase N to get the fastest Shootout tests back into
> 0.1s 1s range.

Increasing N would be very nice, however it has two effects - 
tests take more time to run and the relative order of the entries
changes, which is even more important. 

Look e.g. at 
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/bench/prodcons/detail.php
With N->10*N, python's time increases ~10x, while Erlang's
time does not even double...

- Einar Karttunen