[Shootout-list] Updates for Haskell benchmarks.

[Isaac Gouy]

idiomatic? Which of these is idiomatic? :-)

http://www.willamette.edu/~fruehr/haskell/evolution.html


--- "Brent A. Fulgham" <bfulgham@debian.org> wrote:
> >I personally prefer to interpret the "same way" as
> >"using the same algorithm".

> I've given this a lot of thought over the past couple of weeks.  Even
> Doug Bagley mentioned in an e-mail to me that if he had to do it over
> again, he would not have used the "same way" requirement, since it 
> generated too much angst and unhappiness, without providing much
> benefit.
> 
> I think we should revise the shootout to require that all languages 
> present solutions in their most idiomatic form, so that 
> single-assignment languages aren't force to jump through hoops to
> give the illusion of update.
> 
> >Since the shootout is supposed to evaluate languages,
> >I think resorting to such techniques can give a wrong
> >idea of what haskell is, and thus should be avoided.
> >  
> >
> So, we need to do the following:
> 
> 1.  Modify those language entries that seem to be unidiomatic.
> 2.  Possibly extend the size of the data sets required to run the
> tests so that enough time is required to provide meaningful
> measurements.




		
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