[Shootout-list] Organisation for numerical tests

[Bengt Kleberg]

Sebastien Loisel wrote:
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> So instead of continuing like this, I propose that we choose a set of
> numerical algorithm, with sample implementations in MATLAB or octave
> (the reason is that 10 lines of MATLAB is 100 lines of C or Fortran.)
> This way everyone can understand what's going on, instead of just the
> specialists reading long ocaml codes. Once we've selected the things
> we want to test (for instance, four of them), we do a few
> implementations and stick the into the shootout. Conversely, we look
> at which tests are currently considered "numerical" and kick out any
> that we haven't selected.

sounds reasonable to me. this might be because i do not know anything 
about numerical algorithm tests.


bengt