From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2006-08-11T02:38:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Been there, done that - language shootout

On Aug 10, 2006, at 9:49 AM, Caleb Clausen wrote:

> 3) Therefore, Eric's statement:
>
>> I have to agree with Austin here.  There are benchmarks inside that
>> specify "this benchmark must use the implementation of the random
>> number generator from benchmark X".
>
> is incorrect. Ruby's (admittedly poor) performance on the fasta
> benchmark should not be further artifically be dragging down its
> (admittedly poor) performance on the subsequent 2 benchmarks.

My assertion is correct.  The fasta benchmark says:

> Each program should:
> [...]
> * generate DNA sequences, by weighted random selection from the  
> alphabets (using the pseudo-random number generator from the random  
> benchmark)

And the implemenation:

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php? 
test=fasta&lang=ruby&id=0

Contains the random number generator from the random benchmark:

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/old/benchmark.php? 
test=random&lang=ruby&id=0

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