[Shootout-list] Directions of various benchmarks

[skaller]

On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 17:07, Bengt Kleberg wrote:
> skaller wrote:
> ...deleted
> > Perhaps it doesn't, but the point is the same: we're not
> > testing the language involved in ANY of these cases,
> > in all cases we're comparing C libraries.
> 
> this has been discussed in 
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/shootout-list/2005-March/001167.html
> 
> and
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/shootout-list/2005-April/001688.html
> (just a selection).
> it boils down to the need of a ''external library rule'' for the
> shootout.

Yes I know, but if you apply this 'external library rule' it all
boils down to some arbitrary distinctions, and you end up,
instead of comparing PCRE with PCRE with PCRE with PCRE,
comparing PCRE with PCRE with FAIL and FAIL. Again not
really interesting is it?

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