19 Feb
2007
19 Feb
'07
7:57 a.m.
ithika:
Quoth Ketil Malde, nevermore,
Wouldn't it be better to benchmark a more idiomatically correct codebase?
I suppose the ideal way to do it would be benchmarks for the (1) idiomatic and (2) the highly tuned implementations. Then the compiler writers can push 1 towards 2, while the pesky shootout implementers can move the goalposts of 2. ;-)
In reality this may just foster a small set of horribly specialised optimisers in the compilers, with little benefit for real-world usage. :-(
I think more likely, and hopefully, we'll use this to check that things aren't getting worse from release to release. -- Don