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Move away from "ground-truth"

Open mikebentley15 opened this issue 7 years ago • 2 comments

One criticism received is the problem with the term "ground-truth". It is true that "ground-truth" usually means something like an unalterable, infinite, and unwavering truth. We have used it in the flit tool mostly to represent a pseudo-trusted baseline. So to avoid confusion, the terminology of "ground-truth" ought to be replaced with something more demonstrative of the intended meaning, such as baseline (e.g. "baseline compilation") -- although the term baseline is also overloaded to mean quite a few things.

mikebentley15 avatar Oct 12 '17 21:10 mikebentley15

Suggested replacements: control compile standard compile diagnostic compile trusted compile established compile stable compile

IanBriggs avatar Aug 16 '18 15:08 IanBriggs

So far in the paper, I've been using the "baseline compilation" term. What do you think about that term? A secondary choice would maybe be the "control compilation".

mikebentley15 avatar Sep 18 '18 22:09 mikebentley15