[Shootout-list] Re: Timing issues

[Brian Hurt]

On Sun, 5 Sep 2004, Alan Post wrote:

> The Mono timings in the reversefile benchmark, at least, look
> unrealistically low.

I agree.  I'm wondering if what is happening here is that the Mono runtime 
is detecting that the results aren't needed, and so isn't even computing 
them.  This is a good thing in the real world, but a bad thing in the 
world of artificial benchmarks (like shootout).

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