[Shootout-list] ackermann, values for ''n''

Brent Fulgham bfulg@pacbell.net
Tue, 7 Jun 2005 14:19:00 -0700 (PDT)


--- Bengt Kleberg <bengt.kleberg@ericsson.com> wrote:

> it seems to be difficult to get the kind of ''n''
> selection i would like to see, given the current
> 24 hour limit for running all tests on all 
> languages.

This isn't really a hard-and-fast rule; it's just
an observation that it takes a long time to run
the benchmarks en masse.  Therefore, I tend to avoid
large structural changes since this requires many
hours of time to get back up again.

Currently it takes about 36 hours to run all the
tests.

-Brent