On 7/15/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Donald Bruce Stewart</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:dons@cse.unsw.edu.au">dons@cse.unsw.edu.au</a>&gt; wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
However, if you&#39;re keen, and agreeing to implement the same algorithm on<br>both systems, </blockquote><div><br>Sorry, the rule is you use what&#39;s available in your chosen language, otherwise I have to restrict myself only to use things available in Haskell, which is kindof silly dont you think? 
<br><br>The issue with the shootout is there&#39;s no room for creativity, it&#39;s like working for a manager who micro-manages.<br><br>My ideal testing environment is something like <a href="http://topcoder.com">http://topcoder.com
</a> , but topcoder doesnt support Haskell at this time (probably because it would lose all the time, so noone would use it)<br><br>I&#39;d quite like to see a version of topcoder for Haskell, but shootout is not it.<br><br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I&#39;d have a go in C# at &#39;chameneos&#39;, a concurrency<br>benchmark,<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
<a href="http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=chameneos&amp;lang=all">http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=chameneos&amp;lang=all</a><br></blockquote></div><br>I&#39;ll have a look.&nbsp; The GHC solution seems to be safe I think?&nbsp; so it seems fair.
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