[Shootout-list] Directions of various benchmarks

[Jon Harrop]

On Monday 16 May 2005 16:03, Einar Karttunen wrote:
> I don't mind new floating point benchmarks, but it would be a pity
> to have the shootout focus even more on it as many real programs contain
> no floating point calculations in the critical parts.

Yes, I'd like to see more sophisticated tasks. So I'd like to see the FP 
benchmarks replaced by better alternatives. For example, I'd replace harmonic 
with implicitode (without the low-precision stuff), n-body with relax (once 
I've written it! ;-) and takfp with something more useful.

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