[Shootout-list] n-body broken (everything times out)

Bengt Kleberg bengt.kleberg@ericsson.com
Wed, 18 May 2005 07:38:25 +0200


Isaac Gouy wrote:
> --- Greg Buchholz <sleepingsquirrel@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>>Looks like the n-body setup is broken, since about 3/4ths the
>>tests are now reporting a "timeout".
> 
> 
> N was increased x10, which had no effect on order of the fastest
> languages - so I'll probably ask Brent to re-run the benchmark with
> N=1,000,000 and grovelingly admit to wasting his time :-(

why not keep the old values of ''n'', and just added a larger value?
this way all the old successful runs would have stayed successful.


bengt