[Shootout-list] Weekly Update, message passing

Brent Fulgham bfulg@pacbell.net
Wed, 29 Sep 2004 23:02:02 -0700


On 2004-09-29 00:42:31 -0700 Bengt Kleberg 
<bengt.kleberg@ericsson.com> wrote:

> Brent Fulgham wrote:
> ...deleted
>> Thanks -- I've applied both changes to the shootout and re-run the 
>> test.  I 
>> may be using too high an N value, as even Erlang starts to choke at 
>> the  high
>> end (not completing the test for 1,000 messages in less than 20 
>> seconds
>> -- so the test is only run once).
> 
> 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.
> 
Halving seems a good amount.

-Brent