[Shootout-list] X per second scoring system, resume

[Einar Karttunen]

On 30.09 14:49, Bengt Kleberg wrote:
> given a language that handles a ''i shold become 8, by doing w that 
> makes i one unit larger'' problem like this (ie ww is 2 seconds of work):
> 
> wwwwwwgwggw
> 
> and one that does
> 
> wwggwwwgwww
> 
> they will both take the same total amount of time to reach 8, but the 
> first one will have reached a higher value of i before the second one. 
> if we measure at time = 6, the first language is at 6, but the second 
> language is at 4.

Yes, this was the point more or less.

- Einar Karttunen