From: isaac gouy <igouy@yahoo.com>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] speed
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 08:03:56 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030107160356.76322.qmail@web20505.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
>> Java has huge start up costs...
>> Lies, damned lies, and cross-language benchmarks.
> I think it is a legitimate tactic.
> If your code can run in 100 milliseconds, I could
> care less about performance.
You're both right.
Benchmarks give invaluable insight into specific
problems.
If the specific problem involves long-running
processes then that's what we should be benchmarking:
it doesn't matter what happened in the first second.
If the specific problem involves starting a program
hundreds-of-times a day to do a small computation then
that's what we should be benchmarking: it doesn't
matter what the performance was after millions of
iterations.
best wishes, Isaac
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2003-01-07 16:03 isaac gouy [this message]
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2003-01-03 16:00 onlyclimb
2003-01-03 11:47 ` Noel Welsh
2003-01-02 16:45 ` Chet Murthy
2003-01-03 13:32 ` Xavier Leroy
2003-01-02 17:52 ` Chet Murthy
2003-01-03 14:53 ` Sven Luther
2003-01-03 15:28 ` Erol Akarsu
2003-01-05 1:13 ` Brian Hurt
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