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>>Why would you not do that...<< "Because I want to do fewer chores not more!" >>a completely wrong impression<< "These are not the only compilers and in
by igouy 14y ago
>>Why would you not do that...<<
"Because I want to do fewer chores not more!"
>>a completely wrong impression<<
"These are not the only compilers and interpreters.
These are not the only programs that could be written.
These are not the only tasks that could be solved.
These are just 10 tiny examples."
- dilap 14y agoLet's say I make a website called the Prettiest Person Game, and I throw up some professional crazy-awesome shots of myself and my buddies, and I also put up all igouy's old driver's license photos, and then create a whole bunch of different ways we can compare these photos and see who's prettier. And let's say this site becomes really popular. And people start posting articles like, "wow, dilap is like 10x prettier than igouy in ever single way!" And then igouy's friends go, "whoaaaa, hold on a minute, those are terrible photo's of ioguy! he can really look much better than that!" And then I'm like, "Hey, I ain't got time for this -- I told you already these are not the only photos in the world. Go take your own photos if you want a different comparison!" That's what you're saying.
- igouy 14y agoWhat I'm saying is -- tl;dr Measurement is highly specific -- the time taken for this benchmark task, by this program, with this programming language implementation, with these options, on this computer, with these workloads. http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/ http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/
- igouy 14y agoIn terms of your little make-believe story it's -- "send photos of igouy and you and your buddies, and we'll see which photos are prettier". But don't send photos of your cousins, and your buddies cousins, and...