in the "configure.py" file

[younis125]

I really couldn't understand these two lines:
outputfile = "/home/bo/topK_thrust/topK/output/beamOutput.txt"
comparestring = "/home/bo/parboil/benchmarks/sad/tools/compare-output /home/bo/parboil/datasets/sad/default/output/out.bin ./output"
First line:
It seems that ~/bo/topK_thrust/topK/output/ is a path in your computer, which is mine can be different than yours, right? then when I do this and create a file let's say beamOutput.txt it creates an empty file. Is that normal??
Second line:
I totally confused here.
Is this path ~/parboil/benchmarks/sad/tools/ where you put a file called compare-output??
And what about this path /home/bo/parboil/datasets/sad/default/output/ ??
I'm sorry, I'm pretty new in Linux.. Thanks.