On 3/8/11 4:11 PM, %u wrote:
Uh... how helping fix compiler bugs? Could we help with that? I
feel that's *much* more important than benchmarking, for instance,
since it doesn't make sense to benchmark something if it has bugs.
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The funny thing is that sometimes it makes perfect sense, as
benchmarks _do_ push the limits of, for instance, GC and may reveal
a latent bug ;)
Those are a very specific class of bugs -- bigger bugs like compiler
errors with handling templates are completely unrelated to
benchmarking, and they can be a deal breaker for many people.
I don't think anyone cares about *speed* as much as *correctness*...
would you rather have your 50% accurate program be twice as fast, or
have your 100% accurate program be half as fast?
In machine learning it's very common to trade off accuracy for speed.
Andrei
