[Shootout-list] Many tests cheat

Isaac Gouy igouy2@yahoo.com
Tue, 2 Nov 2004 22:04:06 -0800 (PST)


--- skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: 
> > > The benchmark obviously must be changed so the IO speed isn't
> > > relevant -- right now several benchmarks measure nothing
> > > else.
> > 
> > IO speed isn't relevant because...?
> 
> .. the stated goals of the tests are to measure something
> different.

Really? Where did you read that?

spellcheck  "test line oriented I/O and hashes"

sumcol "mostly measures speed of line-oriented I/O and conversion of
string to integer"


		
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