[Haskell-cafe] Re: Shootout favouring C

On 2006-01-16, Sebastian Sylvan wrote:

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.

Surely you can see how a benchmark where the top three entries all have the same reported time would be better if run for a longer period of time?

Sure. Post a bug/suggestion/feature request on the shootout tracker. This isn't the right forum to complain in (not that I really have the moral high-ground here.)

I really don't understand why you get so upset when someone points out improvements that could be made to the benchmarks. Isn't it better to get more accurate (and fair) results?

There are good ways to do this, and ways that sound delusional and paranoid. -- Aaron Denney -><-