[Shootout-list] Re: Integer overflow, massivly parallell

[Isaac Gouy]

> Isaac Gouy wrote:
> > It just goes back to:
> > - is this to be a test of concurrency
> > - is this to be a test of massive concurrency
> > 
> > Creating 100 threads/processes may be costly in some languages.
> 
> you are correct that there is a difference between concurrency and 
> massive concurrency. one is easier than the other.
> 
> i think that we want to have the benchmark where we emphasis
> differences between languages. if we can test some thing 2 ways, i
> think we should choose the more difficult way, to get bigger
> differences.

Better to have a benchmark which has reasonable implementations in many
languages, than one which is so specialised it's ignored. (Better to
have *your favourite language* by #1 ahead of 45, than #1 ahead of 2.) 




		
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