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

[Brandon J. Van Every]

Bengt Kleberg wrote:
> Isaac Gouy wrote:
> ...deleted
> >
> > Better to have a benchmark which has reasonable
> > implementations in many
> > languages, than one which is so specialised it's ignored. (Better to
>
> imho it goes against the idea of bench marking to dumb down the tests
> until as many as possible can get a good score.

I don't see that as the issue Isaac raises.  The issue is not getting
*good* scores.  The issue is whether the test suite is easy to implement
or not, for any language.  You won't get 'gold nuggets' by making it
difficult to code up tests, you'll only measure the number of
programmers who are willing to ass themselves with a boring task.
Probably that means the most popular languages get complete test suites
and others don't.


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