[Shootout-list] Re: [Gd-chatter] examples/shootout strcat.dylan, NONE, 1.1

[Isaac Gouy]

> > I really think the best way to deal with this problem is making the
> > N big enough so the test will last for at least 5 to 10 seconds.

> seconded. very true. good thing (tm). (i would like to say brilliant,

> but that would be patting my own back way too much :-)
> adjust n to make the fastest language run in (1, 2...somethingelse) 
> seconds. just guessing that ''somethingelse'' should be 5 is better
> than what we have now, but we could try to find a good value of 
> ''somethingelse''.

- when all the test programs have been re-written so that increasing N
doesn't change the nature of the test.

- when someone donates cpu time required to run test continually

- when this becomes a Shootout between long running app servers


> we still need to have several values of n and the graphs. they are 
> indespensable. imho.

imo They have a very limited benefit. 

They demonstrate that cpu times did indeed increase with increasing
work - if cpu times didn't increase then we start to be suspicious of
the implementation and/or measurements. That's all.

There are too few different values to say anything else.





		
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