[Shootout-list] Re: CRAPS default weight for startup & nestedloop

[Aaron Denney]

On 2004-11-27, Brent Fulgham <bfulgham@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 November 2004 10:21 pm, Isaac Gouy wrote:
>> iirc 'hello world' test is included to give some idea how the timings
>> are biased by startup times for different languages, and nestedloop
>> test is included to give some idea how the timings are biased by loop
>> performance for different languages.
>>
>> Seems odd to give these tests non-zero weights when they exist as a
>> reminder that the other tests may already be heavily influenced by
>> these factors.
>
> Plus the scores can have this amount deducted to remove startup cost.  I took 
> a quick look at scorecard.tpl.php, but I'm not sure where the best place 
> would be to set 'hello' to a weight of 0.

Well, I can imagine someone caring a great-deal about startup costs --
imagine a script that is run often, but does little actual computation.

-- 
Aaron Denney
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