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

[Bengt Kleberg]

Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
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> Because I don't trust you, me, or anyone else to stay on the ball with
> this project for years and years and years.  When's the last time the
> original Shootout was updated?  I'd like to be able to relate the
> results of yesterday to the results of today.

again, why?
the resluts are relative performance of a certain versions of languages, 
on a certain hardware/os platform.

why should that be possible to relate to other versions of (other?) 
languages on other hardware/os platforms?
if i am willing to invest the kind of work neccessary to create a system 
where this kind of relations are meaningful, it would seem to me that 
much less work would be requiered to just rerun the tests again. on that 
days hardware/os and that days versions of languages.


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> Who said g++ is no longer supported?  Yet it has changed over the years.

why do you care about the realtive performance of g++ today versus g++ 
of yesterday? and if you are interested, why not add an old g++ version 
to the shootout? we are working under the assumption that g++ is supported.


>>or have i missed something?
> 
> 
> I believe so.

this sounds very likely. i tend to miss things. but i have faith in 
testing to cath errors. i test my ideas by asking others.
so, again, why do we want historical data that can be compared/related 
to present data?


bengt