[Shootout-list] Re: Proposal: revised matrix multiplication test

Einar Karttunen ekarttun@cs.helsinki.fi
Thu, 4 Nov 2004 08:16:53 +0200


On 04.11 02:40, Aaron Denney wrote:
> On 2004-11-03, Einar Karttunen <ekarttun@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:
> > Please make the matrix constant, but require the programs to 
> > work with any other matrix too.
> 
> Constant as in "in the source-code at compile time"?  Why?  To avoid IO?

IO would add a number of lines not related to the test making the
LOC less accurate to the problem. Having the matrix in the source 
should place the same burden on all languages.

- Einar Karttunen