[Shootout-list] please put 'logarithmic' at top of page

[Brandon J. Van Every]

Bengt Kleberg wrote:
> >
> > The advantage of this approach (conceived by Stephen Weeks) is that
> > high-performing tests get
> > spread out a bit (amplifying the relative advantages) to
> help determine
> > "best".
>
> any alternative would have to do this in a better way to be
> acceptable.

I hadn't noticed that the Shootout's scoring system is logarithmic,
because the explanation of the scoring system is at the bottom of the
scoring page, after 4 hits of the Page Down key.  I think the scoring
system should be put at the top of the page.

I'm pleased to discover that OCaml's performance is thus quite a bit
more impressive than Java's than I thought, but also chagrined that it's
much lower than GCC than I thought.  At least it's within spitting
distance of g++.  I wonder how that Intel C++ compiler would turn out?


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Brandon Van Every           Seattle, WA

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