[Shootout-list] Re: [Gd-chatter] examples/shootout strcat.dylan, NONE, 1.1

[Einar Karttunen]

On 14.06 17:02, Einar Karttunen wrote:
> On 14.06 12:21, Andreas Bogk wrote:
> > What I noticed is that for some of the tests, the startup time clearly
> > dominates the runtime (for instance with the Ackermann test).  The
> > page says that the startup time is subtracted, but it doesn't really
> > look like it from the figures.  Maybe you should choose higher numbers
> > for higher total runtime there.
> 
> I was thinking about the initial costs in relation with Erlang. It is 
> clear that with test that take less than a second startup time is an
> important factor. When doing the consumer/provider test I could get
> results where C is ten times better with a small N and results where
> erlang is ten times better with a large N. This clearly makes the
> results very dependent on the N.

I feel stupid for replying to myself, but the pages seem
to contain it... Should rest before posting stupid things
after work.

- Einar Karttunen