[Shootout-list] baseline and shootout optimisation

[Isaac Gouy]

> can it be assumed that a language is only required to work on i386? i
> think it can, as D is implemented only on this arch.

The current test machine is
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/great/faq.php?sort=fullcpu#machine


> further, if i write a benchmark for any given language, do i know
> which
> CPU to target? eg. on gcc, i may want to build with flags like:
> 
>   -march=pentium4

We are somewhat haphazard with compiler flags, but you can see what
flags are being used from the build results 

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/great/benchmark.php?test=spectralnorm&lang=gcc&id=0&sort=fullcpu#log


		
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