[Shootout-list] Directions of various benchmarks

[Bengt Kleberg]

Brent Fulgham wrote:
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> I guess, but let's not act like Lawyers and fight
> over the meaning of specific words.  The phrases

i think it is ok with a discussion (i assume ''fight'' to mean 
discussion) of what a word or phrase means.


> you are alluding to were an attempt to describe what
> a particular test is supposed to do in some concise
> way.  I'm not trying to infer from a statement that
> "the test should work like this Java program" means
> that any successful implementation must be run on
> a virtual machine.  Rather, the point is that the
> algorithm should work like so, and it should make
> use of certain constructs, and that it should not
> take certain obvious shortcuts that negate the point
> of the test.

if "the test should work like this Java program" really means
1 this algorithm
2 these constructs
3 not these obvious shortcuts, they negate the point of the test.

then i think it is much better to use 1-3 than to say "work like this 
Java program". sure it is much longer, but it is much easier to understand.

imho


bengt