[Shootout-list] Many tests cheat

[Isaac Gouy]

> I'm generally in favour of functional testing,
> and doubt that 'do it the same way' tests prove
> anything at all. They tend to bias the tests in favour
> of language with 'same way' facilities and against
> others that don't -- for example Haskell can't do arrays
> so well.
> 
> I would prefer to see tests where the requirement was
> for a significant outcome which suggests some technique
> which is efficient in one language, but doesn't require it.

There's wide agreement that the hash test isn't much good.

Perhaps you could give some thought to what would be a good "lookup"
test that allowed for functional languages (but wasn't biased towards them).


		
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