[Shootout-list] fannkuch

[Bengt Kleberg]

Christophe TROESTLER wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I believe than fannkuch should be run for at least N=10 (possibly
> N=11).  I just checked in the Caml code with aesthetic modifications
> (no code change) and the running time went from 0.09 to 0.12 -- quite
> a few places down.  That means the running times are too short not to
> be seriously influenced by random effects.

the shortest allowed run time in the shootout is 0.01 seconds. there is 
no statment in the faq about how this was decided upon, nor how it was 
measured to be sufficient.

i have a c program that can be used for this. i do not have the skill to 
test the perl timeing system. would it be a good idea to run the c 
program? or should somebody that knows perl recode it in perl? it is 
simple and short.

i think it would be a good thing to check the basics before adding 
iceing (like new tests and new metrics).


bengt