From: Isaac Gouy <igouy@...>
Date: 2006-08-10T12:45:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Been there, done that - language shootout


Caleb Clausen wrote:
> On 8/9/06, Isaac Gouy <igouy@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 2) It's very straightforward - if we use Ruby rand instead of
> > implementing that random number generator we won't get the correct
> > output.
>
> I have to question your testing strategy, then. I have not looked
> closely at your benchmarks... but if you have to have a benchmark
> which uses random numbers (say, Monte Carlo integration), then you
> shouldn't require an exact result. Can't you verify that it is close
> enough to the expected result?

If you're interested enough to speculate and question, please be
interested enough to click the URL that was provided and find out
something about it before you speculate and question ;-)

Here it is again
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=fasta&lang=all#about