[Shootout-list] Re: ring of processes

[Bengt Kleberg]

Isaac Gouy wrote:
>>>The deleted question was: So how do you propose to demonstrate that
>>>these tests are workable across languages with different kinds of
>>>concurrency - rather than being limited to a handfull of languages?
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> -snip-
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>>i think it is difficult/impossible for a test design to demonstrate
>>how the claim "use less than 8k threads if it is too much" hold true.
> 
> 
> I haven't asked for "a test design to demonstrate..." 

but we are discussing my test designs.

i have sent it out to get some feedback on them. i have gotten a few 
things, some of which i have included.

there is now only one feedback topic left. it is about the fact that the 
tests have an unbounded number of processes, n. the unbounded n is there 
to satisfy one goal of the test. this goal is to be able to measure when 
the language tested has reached its limit for processes.

some feedback claim that having an unbounded n will make the tests 
impossible for all but a handfull of languages.
i say this is not correct.
my argument is that with n beeing a variable it will be possible for all 
languages with concurrency to run the test for some value fo n.

i am still waiting for the some argument to convince me of the opposite.


bengt