[Shootout-list] Directions of various benchmarks

[John Skaller]

On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 09:53 +0200, Bengt Kleberg wrote:

> start with n=1 (or 10, or 100, or 1000 depending upon the test). 
> increase with either fixed addition (eg ackerman), or with fixed 
> multiplication. for the muliplication, once we get over the time out 
> limit, we go back by halving ''n'' until we have arrived below the time out.

I have a variation. Start with n=1 and add 1. End of story.
If the test needs to be done for 10, 100, 1000, 10000 .. etc,
then build that into the test. eg calculate m = 10 ^ n and use
m as the control variable.

This relieves the Shootout benchmark of the responsibility
for keeping track of which n's to use for each test,

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