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Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 23:07:44 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Several enhancements for relbench

Frank -

On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 07:17:50PM +0200, Frank Dittrich wrote:
> If a particular benchmark appears several times in the same file,
> print a message to STDERR,

OK.

> and pick the higher values for
> comparision (higher real value is considered here, only if the
> real values are the same, the higher virtual value is considered).

I think it's better to include ALGORITHM_NAME into the names being
compared (for both formats) when an otherwise-matching format name is
detected.  Only if that still leaves matching format names, print a
second warning and do something else (like what you implemented).

There should also be logic to include ALGORITHM_NAME into the name of a
third format that would otherwise match the first two (before
ALGORITHM_NAME was added to them).  For example, if we have:

format [alg1]
format [alg2]
format [alg3]

format [alg2]
format [alg3]
format [alg1]

Then merely changing to:

format [alg1]
format [alg2]
format

format [alg2]
format [alg3]
format

would be wrong as it'd result in a direct comparison of alg3 vs. alg1
results.  Instead, we should keep/include algorithm names in all three
formats in that case.

Thanks,

Alexander

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