[Shootout-list] bench mark test run time, max bad score

[Bengt Kleberg]

Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
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> That will play havoc with historical archives.  Computers are going to
> get faster.  In 2008 some machine is going to be blowing the doors off
> of some test.  Are you just going to renormalize everything and make it
> difficult to compare with the results from 2004?  This is a subtle
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why would we be interested in historical archives? the shootout will 
always be comparing the languages relative to each other. why would an 
no longer supported language be of interest? i am assuming that the 
reason for somebody to look in a historichal archive is that the 
language in question no longer is available.

or have i missed something?


bengt