[Shootout-list] Revised Shootout -- N Increased!

[Isaac Gouy]

Understanding where the time goes in these little tests would be "a
good thing". 

We do a lot of char processing - how many of the tests and languages
are effected by unicode/ascii differences?



--- Bengt Kleberg <bengt.kleberg@ericsson.com> wrote:
> Brent Fulgham wrote:
> ...deleted
> 
> > Although some languages still come in quite fast, enough "slow" 
> > languages are
> > around that it took over 16 hours to rerun everything...
> 
> i have conducted a poll on this list (or rather just asked a question
> 
> :-), and the result is:
> 
> nobody is opposed to removing the Hash (Associative Array) Access
> test.
> and i am very much in favour of removing it.
> 
> upon removal (asap) i suggest keeping an entry in the faq or similar,
> 
> stating that ''This test makes use of sprintf(), which is very
> expensive 
> and pretty much swamps the hash table processing. So I find this test
> 
> pretty meaningless.'', but in a past tense.
> 
> not that one test less will make the 16 hours go down to 8, but every
> 
> little help...
> 
> 
> bengt
> 
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