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

[Isaac Gouy]

> imho it goes against the idea of bench marking to dumb down the tests
> until as many as possible can get a good score.

But it's OK to dumb down until Erlang can get a good score?

People will scan the test, see that none of the languages they
recognise are included and stop reading. If they recognise some names
they might even wonder for a second why those mainstream languages
perform worse than those other unknown languages.


Brent Fulgham wrote:
> > even Erlang starts to choke at the  high end 
> > (not completing the test for 1,000 messages in less than 20
seconds...

Bengt Kleberg wrote:
> i would suggest that we use less processes. halve them a few times 
> until you get a sensible number of tests for various n's.

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