[Shootout-list] Ray tracer developments

[Isaac Gouy]

> I joined this effort to try to improve the scientific computing
> aspect, which is my field. The numerical codes present in the current
> shootout look nothing like traditional or forward-looking scientific
> computing benchmarks, except for n-body.

Not too surprising - the n-body author worked on astrophysics and CS.


> If we have such a budget, I would like to know it, and
> then I would like to reallocate this tight budget as efficiently as
> possible to the highest quality test possible.

imo you've now got a pretty good idea of the different issues we're
trying to balance, hopefully over the next several months new ideas
will arise and be refined into benchmarks that fit-well on the shootout.

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