Re: Rambling on Benchmarking [was Re: Risk of unacceptably slow perl6 performance]

2000-09-13 Thread Nathan Torkington
Michael G Schwern writes: > "perl-benchmarks" good idea. Who's chairing? (not me, not now anyway) I *strongly* recommend giving it a deadline and a specific goal. Also, the mailing list name would be perl6-qa-benchmarks. Nat

Re: Rambling on Benchmarking [was Re: Risk of unacceptably slow perl6 performance]

2000-09-13 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 09:18:24AM -0700, Dave Storrs wrote: > Is it worth opening a new list, "perl6-benchmarks"? I have a > feeling that the traffic flow could be fairly high, at least for a while. "perl-benchmarks" good idea. Who's chairing? (not me, not now anyway) -- Michael G Sch

Re: Rambling on Benchmarking [was Re: Risk of unacceptably slow perl6 performance]

2000-09-13 Thread Leon Brocard
Michael G Schwern sent the following bits through the ether: > The things we bench need not be simple low level bits. AFAIK benchmarking in general hasn't really been done in Perl, apart from the recent slew of 'sort' benchmarks. I think that proper benchmarks give us a great deal of information

Rambling on Benchmarking [was Re: Risk of unacceptably slow perl6 performance]

2000-09-12 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 06:56:36PM -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote: > I'd rather see someone write a program that involves file reading > and writing, regular expression manipulation, some string tweaking > (length, concatenation, etc), and some object method calls. That > covers the spectrum of T