OT: Made me smile, Paolo. It is rare to recognize that, despite its theoretical foundations, computing is an empirical science; experimental methodology applies. And of course: Theoretically, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
- Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Paolo Castagna [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 02:15 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: TDB benchmark performance Hi Thorsten, hi Bill, if the word science in "computer science" has any meaning, repeating the experiment would be interesting. In this case, fortunately, we are in the condition that repeating the experiment is possible (this is not always the case!). Even though we might change some of the settings for the Java heap and try stats.opt vs. fixed.opt to see if those have a significant impact on the results. The reproducibility of an experiment is one of the principles of the scientific method. However, benchmark developers do not always make that easy. :-) Paolo [ ... ]
