[Shootout-list] Many tests cheat

Bengt Kleberg bengt.kleberg@ericsson.com
Thu, 04 Nov 2004 09:46:18 +0100


skaller wrote:
...deelted
> Processes are even easier .. because they can be started
> by the shootout instead of the programmer. But wouldn't the
> OS overhead swamp anything the program was doing?

for this test i have decided that ''execution context'' is sufficient.
i wanted to mandate processes instead, but was unable to put that 
requierment into a test (do-the-same-thing).

as to os overhead it would depend upon if the processes where os 
proceses or not.


bengt