On Wed, 2011-05-01 at 13:15 -0500, Guy Hulbert wrote: > > Getting benchmarking will be interesting. > > I hope I have time. I'm planning to compile and run one C and one > perl > program today and see if the outputs are the same (that's my > understanding, so far, of the requirements for alioth).
This is going to be interesting. So far I've tried two of the programs but in neither case would the C version compile on my system (debian etch) so I had to use python. So I can run 'pidigits' in perl and python but both use the GNU GMP library so I had to install the C library and then modules for each of python and perl. However, it's not clear to me what is really being bench-marked if GMP is doing all the work in each case. Oh well. So far I've just written a perl script to save pages by language and program name from shootout.alioth.debian.org. However, the HTML is all munged so I had to cut-and-paste the code into files from the browser. I will try to see if there's any more sane way to do this but I think I have to join the shootout project to post on their forum since they no longer have an email list. -- --gh