Benchmark

[ciaccia]

Hi,

can we have a little benchmark of the system that will run the contest scripts so we can tune up ours with a corresponding time limit?

You know, 60 seconds on a PII test server are quite different from 60 secs on a P4...

[stuart]

this has been asked before on a previous contest.... and I will try and get one for you as soon as I can.
to be honest though, the 60 secs will be increased if it has to be (its a baseline/target).. it's really your script in comparison to other scripts.. for example I will test all scripts for points (I will increase time if required) - then the highest scoring scripts will be tested for an average execution time.

but that said I will still get a benchmark script up soon.

p.s. if anyone has a good benchmark script, post it here, and I will give my results based on that.

cheers
stuart

[cagrET]

Stuart maybe just create script:

for($i = 0; $i <= 100000; ++$i) {
  $x = $i;
}

or smth like this

and tell us the time its executed
and everyone can compare it with his own machine