[Shootout-list] Safety vs. speed

[Bengt Kleberg]

Einar Karttunen wrote:
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> 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.

you are correct. i do not have arrays at my disposal and never 
considered the possiblity. in your opinion, how do we deceide what would 
be ''sufficiently many messages/process''?

however, even given a changing number of processes, what would stop the 
implementor from allocating a sufficiently large piece of memory and use 
it as an array? (i spent 15 years doing c, and i can still remember 
something about it. if i have to :-).


bengt