Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Shootout favouring C

On 1/16/06, Aaron Denney wrote:

On 2006-01-16, Sebastian Sylvan wrote:

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On 1/16/06, Isaac Gouy wrote:

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Shootout favouring C On 1/16/06, Daniel Fischer wrote: Is it only my machime, or can you confirm that for the Ackermann benchmark, it's very good for C that they chose 9 and not a larger value?

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Sebastian Sylvan wrote: This is interesting. Hopefully it's not intentional,

Pardon my rudeness but this really is getting a bit much!

Please keep to the true spirit of fictional crime writing and provide a motive for these evil characters who will stop at nothing to make Haskell seem some worse than C.

I think you're being a bit paranoid here, nobody's claiming that there's some hidden agenda, just that there are improvements that could be made to increase accuracy and fairness.

Well, when you start bringing up whether it is intentional, his reaction seems quite reasonable.

The original message was titled "Shootout favouring C", which at least to me sounds like the OP was implying that it was intentional. Be that as it may, I was actually trying to claim that it wasn't intentional, but since I'm not involved with the shootout (and wouldn't know for a fact if it's intentional or not) I had to lessen my claim and say that it "hopefully" wasn't intentional. I don't think his reaction is reasonable. Especially not if he indeed is claiming that the cases where C is favoured are unintentional. The fact that he seems to take suggestions for improvements as a personal insult hardly helps his case (that the benchmarks aren't intentionally geared to favour C). Daniel's benchmarks are interesting, and instead of a paranoid and rude response from the people responsible, I would rather have liked to see if the results are the same on the systems used in the shootout. /S -- Sebastian Sylvan +46(0)736-818655 UIN: 44640862