[Shootout-list] Grouping tests

[Bengt Kleberg]

Einar Karttunen wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I am trying to move forward with the plan to categorize the tests. 
> Please make the grouping better or shout if the whole idea 
> should be forgotten. This is very preliminary at this stage...

please do not forget this idea. i like to order things. the preliminary 
stage is good enough as it is, but i have a few suggestions.
note that i do not think the categories i suggest are added are worth 
much. especially not if they would cause a delay.


> Data Structures
>   Array Access
>   Hash (Associative Array) Access

broken?


>   Hashes, Part II
>   List Processing
>   Matrix Multiplication
> Control Structures
>   Ackermann's Function
>   Exception Handling
>   Fibonacci Numbers
>   Nested Loops
> Objects
>   Method Calls
>   Object Instantiation
> Broken
>   Lists (Singly Linked)
>   Lists (Doubly Linked)
>   Regular Expression Substitution
> Concurrency
>   Process Instantiation
>   Producer/Consumer Threads
>   Ring of Messages
> Strings
>   Regular Expression Matching
>   String Concatenation
> Miscellaneous
>   Heapsort
>   Simple TCP/IP Server

network?


>   Hello World
>   Statistical Moments

numerical?


>   Plugin Test
>   Random Number Generator


perhaps all the following tests should be in a ''real world 
work''/''non-synthetic'' group? and maybe even Random Number Generator 
belongs there, too.
>   Reverse A File
>   Sieve of Eratosthenes
>   Spell Checker
>   Sum a Column of Integers
>   Count Lines/Words/Chars
>   Word Frequency


bengt