[OT] benchmarking "typical" programs

[David Hodgkinson]

On 21 Sep 2012, at 11:09, David Cantrell <david at cantrell.org.uk> wrote:

> On 21 Sep 2012, at 10:57, David Hodgkinson <davehodg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Does benchmarking the test suites for a representative subsection
>> of the CPAN world count?
> 
> I doubt it. Each test suite is very repetetetive, so you certainly won't be doing a realistic benchmark re CPU caches and possibly not re the MMU or I/O system.


-j