Google Summer of Code 2011 application

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 3/8/11 4:11 PM, %u wrote:
>>> Uh... how helping fix compiler bugs? Could we help with that? I
> feel that's *much* more important than benchmarking, for instance,
> since it doesn't make sense to benchmark something if it has bugs.
> :\
>> The funny thing is that sometimes it makes perfect sense, as
> benchmarks _do_ push the limits of, for instance, GC and may reveal
> a latent bug ;)
>
> Those are a very specific class of bugs -- bigger bugs like compiler
> errors with handling templates are completely unrelated to
> benchmarking, and they can be a deal breaker for many people.
>
> I don't think anyone cares about *speed* as much as *correctness*...
> would you rather have your 50% accurate program be twice as fast, or
> have your 100% accurate program be half as fast?

In machine learning it's very common to trade off accuracy for speed.

Andrei