[Shootout-list] Ray tracer (set of tests)

[Bengt Kleberg]

Isaac Gouy wrote:
> --- Robert Seeger <rhseeger@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>It's not so much "solving a problem" as it is "making the collection
>>of tests more useful". If you look through some of the past
>>discussions, you'll see it mentioned that having a wide variety of
>>tests is a good thing.
> 
> 
> Someone might have asserted it was a good thing - I don't recall seeing
> anything to back up the opinion.
> 
> (And we're begging the question "making the collection of tests more
> useful" for what purpose?)

see
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/shootout-list/2005-April/001718.html
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/shootout-list/2005-April/001710.html

for attempts to back up the opinion and stating a purpose.


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> If you were the person who created the groupings then it's easier to
> focus on ... Otherwise you have to learn and remember someone else's
> idea of what group to hide the benchmark in.

it owuld indeed be difficult to have a list of set/group ''a'', ''b'', 
''c'', ''d'', ....
especially if they where created by one person, that did not document 
what they contain, nor how these contents where arrived at.

but the groupings could have a descriptive heading, a content list and 
an explanation as to what goes into them.
that would eliminate the reason to memorise the contents, and also avoid 
the hiding effect.


bengt