[Shootout-list] Directions of various benchmarks

[Bengt Kleberg]

skaller wrote:
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> Again some reason to think of categories. Low level integer calculations
> are optimised differently to floats, so there are two kinds of 
> 'number crunching to test. Modern applications do a lot of string
> handling that could be checked. At least FPLs have polymorphism
> and first class functions so that can be checked. Some algorithms
> run on the stack and some need heap, so heap performance has to
> figure somehow.

for more sets we also have:
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/shootout-list/2004-November/000814.html


note that the original inspiration for the shootout 
(http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/bwk/interps/pap.html) had lots of 
file io and was considered ground breaking in that respect.


bengt