Re: [boost] [xpressive] Performance Tuning?

Subject: Re: [boost] [xpressive] Performance Tuning?
From: Edward Grace (ej.grace_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-07-29 11:28:38

>> I'm clearly going to have to ponder this in some depth.  While I've
>> thought about trying to get the  maths (statistics) right, I've not
>> really given the nitty gritty of the machine's operation a great  
>> deal of
>> thought.
>
> Well, there you have it. I'd love to have your expertise on statistics

I claim none!  I've been trying to learn as I go - perhaps a little  
knowledge is a dangerous thing!

> plus Matthias Troyer, et al. test harness be combined in an easy to
> use benchmarking library.

Be careful what you wish for, it might come true... ;-)

> Benchmarking is such a black art :-) !

I totally agree! Like presumably many others, this appeared to me to  
be a trivial problem - at first sight.  In fact it's anything but  
straightforward. I bet there are half a dozen or so PhDs sitting in  
this particular dark recess of computing.

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