[Shootout-list] X per second scoring system, resume

[Brandon J. Van Every]

Einar Karttunen wrote:
>
> This is made even further bad by generational garbage collectors with
> patterns like:
>
> WWWgWWWgWWWGGWWWgWWWg (where g < G)

But this is like anything else.  You run over a large number of seconds
to average these errors.  If your G spikes are really huge, then you
need to run for a much larger number of seconds.  A garbage collector
isn't special, it's an implicit algorithm, just like a memory cache
hierarchy or pathological test case is implicit in whatever you're
doing.  You just need to be aware that high variance == more testing
time to be accurate.


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