[Shootout-list] Re: sumcol - when the correct answer is wrong :-)

Brent Fulgham bfulg@pacbell.net
Mon, 20 Sep 2004 15:31:25 -0700 (PDT)


--- Isaac Gouy <igouy2@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Maybe we should have a new test
> - where success was either providing the right
> answer, or failing at
> runtime (see what performance is like with runtime
> checks enabled); and
> failure was silently ignoring the error ;-)

You have a smiley, but I think it's a good idea.  I'm
not quite sure how best to approach it, but I've
thought things like this overflow issue, string buffer
overruns, and so forth would be good things to
highlight in the shootout.

Any ideas are welcome!

-Brent