From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id RAA01706; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 17:03:59 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA01703 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 17:03:58 +0100 (MET) X-SPAM-Warning: Sending machine is listed in blackholes.five-ten-sg.com Received: from web20505.mail.yahoo.com (web20505.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.226.140]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id h07G3v510817 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 17:03:57 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <20030107160356.76322.qmail@web20505.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [64.0.151.188] by web20505.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 07 Jan 2003 08:03:56 PST Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 08:03:56 -0800 (PST) From: isaac gouy Subject: Re: [Caml-list] speed To: caml-list@inria.fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk >> 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 __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners