Re: Backend and non-backend (was Re: Stencil bounding box)

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

David Feuer schreef:
> On 5/2/06, Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > There are various ways of comparing numbers. The point is that you need
> > to know which pairs of numbers/rectangles/etc. to compare. For that, you
> >   need to get the elements in a canonical order, and that *must* be done
> > with discrete quantities. Some possibilities
>
> I don't understand why it has to be done in a canonical order, rather
> than looking for the closest match for each element.

It doesn't have to, but it will make it much cheaper to do the 
comparison, because the sorting will have to be done only once for each 
system/score.

This is interesting if we're going to do these tests nightly, and 
compare the latest build with (say) 10 or 50 other builds.

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