From: Anthony Cowley (acowley at seas.upenn.edu) Date: Mon Apr 6 15:12:44 EDT 2009 |
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> > Thanks I wonder what it means when computer scientists have to re-benchmark > such a result every so many years. Kent published his paper nearly 10 years > ago. -- Matthias > It's a ramification of people offering an abstraction and claiming that it is amenable to static analysis and optimization before having actually implemented that optimization. Re-benchmarking is our way of reinforcing our skepticism of such pleas :) Anthony
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