[Shootout-list] Safety vs. speed

[Einar Karttunen]

On 22.09 08:24, Bengt Kleberg wrote:
> >ps. Is anyone working on "Ring of Message-Sending Processes" ? 
> >I could add a Haskell solution tonight.
> 
> i have already written one, but not in haskell :-). however, i am 
> lobbying for a change. i think the number of processes should be static, 
> and N should change the number of times the message goes around the ring.
> you see, i have also written a process instantination test. there the 
> number of processes varies with N.
> i think these are two different things (message passing and process 
> creation), and therefore needs two different test.

Having a static number of processes would tempt people 
to use solutions with static arrays which is not what
the test wants. Having sufficiently many messages/process
creation should be fine.

- Einar Karttunen