> I've always been confused about people who present benchmarks of their > own code against more of their own code, rather than to have the > courage to compare against other people's code.
I think this can be useful in some contexts. It can "normalize away" the skill of the programmer and the amount of effort put into the code, which can make an effective comparison of two strategies / algorithms. Also, if you consider something like MPIR, it can be tricky for an outsider to predict which algorithm gets used to multiply two integers -- good production code is rarely as simple as a straightforward implementation of a single algorithm. -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
