[Shootout-list] Re: Timing issues

[Alan Post]

In article <Pine.LNX.4.44.0409051240120.5809-100000@localhost.localdomain>, Brian Hurt wrote:
> 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).

This program:
  http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/lang/csharp/reversefile.csharp.html

looks to me to be using all the computed results.  I'm not sure what
you mean.