[Shootout-list] Many tests cheat

[skaller]

On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 20:13, Einar Karttunen wrote:


> Have you read the paper about ST arrays? 
> http://research.microsoft.com/Users/simonpj/Papers/state-lasc.ps.gz

I have now, thanks for the link! 

> I think the problem of that is that other languages could use 
> the same approach as Felix which would improve their results.

Yes, I agree, that is precisely the issue. However it
isn't as clear in Felix where C code isn't foreign.

In fact, you could say that Felix is just an extension
of C++ .. and indeed it was designed to be that. 
Consider:

	type int = "int";

Without C bindings, there would not be any integers in  Felix.
There aren't any native ones :)

> I use the following methology with submitting tests:
> * If my implementation appears to be fair commit it
> * If my implementation beats the crap out of other implementations 
>   post it to the list asking "do you think this is fair?"

How will you judge a Felix program?

For example the exceptions test ?

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