[Shootout-list] process creation & message passing chain

[Isaac Gouy]

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> if we worry, an alternative would be to let each process prove its 
> existence by creating the next process. thus no message passing would
> be needed.

If we worried then we would be taking timings in the program code,
directly before and after the code sections we wanted to measure ;-) 

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> how about a 3;rd argument (T?). it could be used to loop over the
> test ''body'' T times, so that the total time for a test would be 
> (time-for-1-test)*T. T would have to be trial-and-errored until the 
> shootout machine/os gives us a measurable time.

We've been here before :-(
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/shootout-list/2004-October/000651.html


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> surely it would be better to use a graph? the shootout have graphs,
> but they are underutilised at present.

They are illegible at present, because of the amount of data crushed
into them, and other choices. 




		
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