[Shootout-list] Re: ring of processes

[Isaac Gouy]

> One concern I do have is that it may make large N values difficult to
> test; running with high N may create too many processes under
> implementations that map execution contexts to processes.

Yes, that would make the test un-interesting. 

The original ring benchmark was not restricted by the peculiar Shootout
measurement technique, and timed both process creation and message
sends separately, within the code. 

http://www.sics.se/~joe/ericsson/du98024.html

Seems like the same code could be used for a number of different tests:

- process creation
 send one message to prove all the processes are still there

- message send
 2 processes M message sends (producer-consumer) 

- message send 2 
 5000 processes M message sends
 just to see the message send performance degrade
 



		
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