[Ar-Curunir]

Computer Science doesn't mean empirical stuff only, nor does it mean evaluations with code.

Theory has its place, and so does systems work. No need to denigrate one or the other.

[mhh__]

I was trying to be clear that I was referring to papers which are talking about code they wrote. If you wrote (say) a program to predict the throughput of machine code, then I want to be able to reproduce the results you claim - thats a real example, no hint of any source yet and I've been looking.

If we can't reproduce it isn't really science. I know academics often write bad code and don't like to publish their dirty work, but the buck has to stop somewhere.

[robotresearcher]

Did you ask them for their code?