[Shootout-list] What people say about shootout

Isaac Gouy igouy2@yahoo.com
Fri, 29 Apr 2005 13:35:19 -0700 (PDT)


--- Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com> wrote: 
> > FP perf. is important, but I'd hate to see the Shootout focus a 
> > whole lot more on it.
> 
> Yes, I'd be happy if ~15% of the benchmarks were FP intensive.
> However, I'm happy to see 50% of the benchmarks use some FP, as long
> as they do more interesting things with it than just +, -, * and the
> occasional /.

'rithmatic is so easy for non-mathematicians :-)

Specifically what more interesting things?

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