19 Feb
2007
19 Feb
'07
7:02 a.m.
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. :-( Cheers, D. -- Dougal Stanton