[Shootout-list] What people say about shootout

[Isaac Gouy]

--- Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com> wrote:
> On Friday 29 April 2005 21:19, Dave wrote:
> > Let's see, right now harmonic, heapsort, mandelbrot, nbody, random
> > and takfp are all primarily floating point.
> 
> I wouldn't call "heapsort" and "random" floating point. AFAIK,
> heapsort need not use any floating point as you can compare and
> shuffle bits. Even if heapsort is implemented using floating point,
> it is probably more memory bound than arithmetic bound. Random uses
> more integer arithmetic than floating point.

fwiw I'd be happy to let heapsort slink off to The Doug Bagley 


> I just profiled the OCaml implementation of knucleotide and most of
> the time is spent in the GC and in the hash table, so not FP.

Excellent - that's what it should be doing.


> Could random be relegated to a "common code" section and not counted
> as a benchmark?

What's your concern?


> If nbody is to be kept then I really think we should factor out all
> of those magic numbers - it's really quite bad!

Why? Concern with LOCs?



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