On Nov 28, 2005, at 8:41 PM, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
runtime,-O1,zlib-1.1.4:minigzip,previous 0.32
Ah, ok, good. I'd eject the ,previous to the filename, and reorder slightly, but, certainly that is trivial to do.
Can't be compared with each other
I suspect we're in agreement, though I missed the detail of what the two items were to know exactly what you meant.
...and emitting PASS/FAIL after _comparing_ two or more arbitrary runs according to some criteria? Like above? ;-)
Yes. :-)
You have to elaborate here. How does "biasing" the number of cycles to make it 0 help?
No, I don't mean bias. I only meant to imply direction, bigger == worse, and that the numbers are non-negative, that is all. As for normalization, yeah, well, that's a very interesting topic in its own right, I won't dwell on it here. Let's just say that it winds up being a vote of confidence/relevance of each testcase.