[Shootout-list] Directions of various benchmarks

[skaller]

On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 09:02, Brent Fulgham wrote:
> --- skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> > > > How interesting is it to compare Perl/PCRE with
> > > > C/PCRE with Python/PCRE with Ocaml/PCRE .. is it
> > > > interesting to compare PCRE with PCRE??
> 
> On the surface, it seems like a tautology -- but
> what *I* find interesting is that even though these
> tests are supposedly PCRE to PCRE to PCRE, they
> do not have the same score.  That gives us some
> useful information right there.

It gives us some data, but it is only information
if you can put it in context -- what does it mean?

Are we measuring the cost of interfacing to an
external library .. and if so how can we do that
when external libraries are excluded ..? <g>


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