[Ocaml-biz] garbage collection benchmark

[Brandon J. Van Every]

Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
>
> Another 'hedge' would be to worry mainly about beating Java
> and C#.  At
> present, these are much easier to go after.  One could do that with
> either synthetic or application level benchmarks.  Again, in
> the latter case one would need to design a 'fair' application.

A garbage collection benchmark would be a good dodge, seeing as how C++
can't do that.  I asked on comp.benchmarks about extant GC benchmarks,
unfortunately I haven't gotten any replies.  I'm sure perusing the
newsgroup archives would yield something.  I'm not focused on that
exercise right now though.  Right now I'm mainly kibbitzing with the
Shootout people about how to make a more fair and equitable standard
scoring system.  There are many issues... hence my brain dumping on this
list about benchmarking approaches.


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Brandon Van Every           Seattle, WA

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