[Shootout-list] fannkuch

Bengt Kleberg bengt.kleberg@ericsson.com
Tue, 24 May 2005 07:52:57 +0200


On 2005-05-23 23:03, Jon Harrop wrote:
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> Note that there may be larger sources of noise than the granularity of the 
> timer, such as GC. Running the Mlton implementation of the ray tracer here (a 

this is correct. to become really good at reliable measurements the 
shootout should handle the different languages variations (to make 
things worse the variations might be dependent upon the test).
since i do not think that it is possible for a few people to cover all 
the possiblities here, the alternative would be to have a high allowed 
noice percentage (say 10%. i think your numbers all where 5% or smaller).


bengt