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

[Brandon J. Van Every]

Bengt Kleberg wrote:
>
> [3 times like Dorothy's ruby slippers]
>
> yes, this is true. provided that we do not want the things done
> preparing to run the test included in the test. but i want them. the
> reason why was explain in the previous email.

BTW, your 'previous e-mail' in my mailbox is about wwwggwwgwgwwgww and
so forth.
I suppose what you mean is:

> this is correct. and, hopefully a good thing (tm). ie, we
> have a fixed
> shutdown time that is measured for a as-short-as-possible program.
> hopefully there is a correlation between small, fast program
> without any
> data and smallest possible stop time. it does not have to be, but we
> will not be totally off the mark.
> then, when we subtract the smallest possible startup and stop
> time, we
> know that it is the test specific times that is left. i want the time
> spend in setting up things used in the test to be counted as
> part of the
> time it takes to do the test. this helps to keep programs
> that wants to
> speed things up by allocating things in advance, honest.
> imho.

The problem is that you are making an assumption that it is
representative, rather than measuring it.  You can only prove it's
representative with invasive timers.


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Brandon Van Every               Seattle, WA

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