From: Isaac Gouy Date: 2006-09-16T05:30:56+09:00 Subject: Re: Metaruby, BFTS, Cardinal and Rubicon - State of play? Austin Ziegler wrote: > On 9/15/06, Isaac Gouy wrote: > > Austin, you've stepped from criticism to personal vendetta. > > Not in the least. You demonstrated *then* that you were wholly > uninterested in being responsible. > > > You make abusive comments without any reference to what is actually > > shown on the shootout website. In a similar tirade, six months ago, you > > complained about a benchmark that, even then, hadn't been shown in the > > shootout for at least 6 months. > > Not shown? > > You *do* prominently link these from the shootout home page. > > > Where exactly is that Perl program shown in the current benchmarks? > > Here's the link http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/ > > http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/old/benchmark.php?test=ackermann&lang=perl&id=3 So you couldn't find that Perl program in the current benchmarks. We do still show "the obsolete 2001 Doug Bagley Benchmarks", and we *do* prominently label them "the obsolete 2001 Doug Bagley Benchmarks", and of course they were not referred to by Kevin Tew. > You may have changed the set of benchmarks. There's no /may/ - the benchmarks were changed a year ago. > I'll do some research now > and see if you've actually cleaned up your methodology. I doubt it, > but if you have, I'll publicly post an apology. If you haven't, you'll > clean up your methodology. Otherwise, I'll update my criticisms, but > you won't get anything positive from me about the shootout. > > It will be about two weeks before I can look at this, but I will do so. > > Do we have an agreement there? Of course not. Your opinion of the shootout "methodology" is no more than your opinion of the shootout "methodology". When you have up-to-date information, argue the merits of your opinion. > > -austin > -- > Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com * http://www.halostatue.ca/ > * austin@halostatue.ca * http://www.halostatue.ca/feed/ > * austin@zieglers.ca