Hugh Perkins
My ideal testing environment is something like http://topcoder.com , but topcoder doesnt support Haskell at this time (probably because it would lose all the time, so noone would use it)
I'd quite like to see a version of topcoder for Haskell, but shootout is not it.
??? Topcoder certainly isn't about benchmarking. Undoubtedly, it would be absolutely awesome to be able to use Haskell in topcoder... but it wouldn't say anything about speed. My guess is that practically no topcoder submissions fail by exceeding the allowable time limit. The competition (the alg one, which is the only one anyone really cares about) is about solving problems quickly (in programmer time) and accurately. But wow, that would be great! I suppose there's not much chance of lobbying them for the change. :) -- Chris Smith