On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 01:12 +0200, Sebastian Pop wrote:
> Joe Buck wrote:
> > The problem with using time as a cutoff is that you then get results that
> > can't be reproduced reliably.  Better to count something that is a feature
> > of the algorithm, e.g. number of executions of some inner loop, number of
> > nodes visited, or the like, 
> 
> On the other hand, it is not based on such features that you'll be
> able to provide a watermark on time and space... Having guarantees on
> compile time and space is probably what some users will want instead
> of yet another bunch of --param max-foo-nodes.

Sebastian,  I really think you are worrying too much.
It's pretty rare that it will take going all the way to omega to be able
to disambiguate two dependences.



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