[Shootout-list] mandelbrot errors (perl, gforth, guile, ...)

[Christophe TROESTLER]

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Greg Buchholz <sleepingsquirrel at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>   I noticed that the ocaml version of the mandelbrot test fails with a
> diff error, but the perl and guile versions don't report much of anything
> in the "build & benchmark results" section.  It looks something like...

Well asking for identical output on a problem known for its
sensitivity to initial conditions is bound to fail (unless the very
same operations are performed).  On the attached picture , you will
notice that the differences (between C and OCaml verions), seen as
white dots, are at the "border" of the Mandelbrot set.  If one
increases the number of iterations, there are less differences but
they do not disappear completely.

ChriS

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