Re: why benchmarks need salt

[Elias Barrionovo <elias.tandel@...>]

Soon:

"Abstract: In this paper we present a new optimization technique,
where we use an artificial neural network together with other
heuristics to find a suitable name for (...)"

On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 4:05 PM, Tim Hill <drtimhill@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Jul 20, 2015, at 9:00 AM, Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
>>
>> Now, see how the times change with the name of the executable:
>>
>> roberto@arraial:~/prj/lua$ lua temp
>> 0.91
>> roberto@arraial:~/prj/lua$ lua temp
>> 0.91
>> roberto@arraial:~/prj/lua$ mv lua lua1
>> roberto@arraial:~/prj/lua$ lua1 temp
>> 0.57
>> roberto@arraial:~/prj/lua$ lua1 temp
>> 0.57
>>
>>
>> -- Roberto
>>
>
> Wow .. a 40% improvement .. imagine the gain if you changed the name to lua9 !
>
> Clearly, this technique needs to be patented.
>
> —Tim
>
>



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