[Shootout-list] Re: Integer overflow

Bengt Kleberg bengt.kleberg@ericsson.com
Mon, 27 Sep 2004 10:47:44 +0200


Brent Fulgham wrote:
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> Ahh -- yes, you are right.  So this would be our concurrency test.  
> Perhaps it
> is not complicated enough?

imho, it is a low level bench mark (it is not doing anything useful like 
the word count test) and should be as simple as possible.



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> Why don't we modify the input file so that it includes sufficient 
> distribution of
> positive and negative numbers that any combination of copies of the file
> is always clamped below 2^30? 

good idea. just switch sign between each input line.


bengt