[Shootout-list] Re: Timing issues

[Brian Hurt]

On Sun, 5 Sep 2004, Isaac Gouy wrote:

> --- Brian Hurt <bhurt@spnz.org> 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. 
> 
> I wish! You might find places where Haskell and Clean are doing that,
> but the problem with Mono is more mundane. This is the answer from the
> Mono developers list:

I stand corrected.  I've been bitten by that bug so many times in my own 
microbenchmarks that it's a kneejerk (emphasis on the second syllable) 
reaction.

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