[Shootout-list] What people say about shootout

[Dave]

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> [mailto:shootout-list-admin@lists.alioth.debian.org]On Behalf Of Isaac
> Gouy
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> Subject: RE: [Shootout-list] What people say about shootout
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> --- Dave <davejf@frontiernet.net> wrote:
> > FP perf. is important, but I'd hate to see the Shootout focus a whole
> > lot more on it.
>
> Which leaves open the question of what you think about the current
> balance of benchmarks on the shootout.
>

Let's see, right now harmonic, heapsort, mandelbrot, nbody, random and takfp
are all primarily floating point.

Given that the goal is 25 tests (that's what the home page says anyhow) and
there are 6 already, we're at 25% - which seems reasonable to me.

Plus, fasta and knucleotide also use the random algorithm. And the sandbox
also has spectal-norm and 'health' (uses random).

Given that, I think that all in all the balance is pretty good, with maybe 1
more new and 1 to replace harmonic or maybe random sense it is used in other
benchmarks. The ray-tracer looks promising to me as one to include I guess.

- Dave

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