[Shootout-list] Stuff

[Brent Fulgham]

--- Bengt Kleberg <bengt.kleberg@ericsson.com> wrote:
> different people have different "practically
> important sets of problems".  the interesting 
> question is who gets to decided which sets should
> be in the shootout, and which should be removed?

The answer to this used to be 'me'.  However, I don't
think the shootout serves much purpose if it only
reflects the desires of a single individual.
Therefore, I've been trying to make this a more
'democratic' process.

So, the answer should be 'we all do'.  However, there
are some constraints:

1.  Ideally, a new test will fit into the existing
testing framework with minimal effort.
2.  A new test should not test the same stuff as
existing tests.
3.  A new test should have a minimal set of
implementations before being added to the main
page of the shootout.

> ...deleted
> > (The obvious problem benchmark is pidigits because
> > it requires arbitrary precision arithmetic.)
> 
> would it not be possible to do arbitrary precision
> arithmetic in languages that does not have it 
> built-in, by coding it oneself?

Yes.  The 'loc' metric would then show that the
language is less friendly to this type of work than
others.

-Brent