[Shootout-list] Directions of various benchmarks

[Bengt Kleberg]

skaller wrote:
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> Note however I tend to favour more tests organised in
> categories than the current Shootout design,
> so I'd probably have an FFI 'unit' test, and a couple
> of tests of practical significance that used FFI's but

test sets are a good thing.
they can lead newcomers to the kind of tests that are most interesting 
to them.
sets can also be a help with designing new tests (ie if we have both 
addition and subtraction tests in the integer set, but only addition in 
the floating point set, it would be easy to think of having a 
subtraction for floats, too)


bengt