[Shootout-list] What people say about shootout

[Dave]

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> [mailto:shootout-list-admin@lists.alioth.debian.org]On Behalf Of skaller
> Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2005 2:21 AM
> To: Robert Seeger
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> Subject: Re: [Shootout-list] What people say about shootout
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> On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 21:39, Robert Seeger wrote:
> > Heh. Those are the types of tests that I like. Since my real world
> > problems tend to have more to do with text processing than the
> > math-oriented ones most people here are interested in...
>
> Another argument in favour of test categories, so numerical
> and text handling tests can be clearly separated?
>

IMHO, the categories idea is a good one to the extent that it allows people
to "drill into" the results further, but I think a really valuable part of
the Shootout for new visitors is to be able to take a snapshot look at the
results presented as they are now (more or less in toto) and drill down from
there.

Which begs the question - how are the default CRAPS weightings derived
anyway, since the current 'rankings' are so heavily dependent on that? Don't
construe this as the beginning of a complaint - I happen to think they apply
fairly well to 'real-world' code (that is, the type of software I've been
writing lately ;)

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