[Shootout-list] Stuff

[Bengt Kleberg]

Isaac Gouy wrote:
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>>Knowing which languages cannot be used to solve practically important
>>sets of problems is very valuable information. I don't see any
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> benefit
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>>in removing this information from the shootout.

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> Is it possible that your "practically important sets of problems" are
> much less "practically important" to programmers working in other
> domains?

different people have different "practically important sets of problems".
the interesting question is who gets to decided which sets should be in 
the shootout, and which should be removed?


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> (The obvious problem benchmark is pidigits because it requires
> arbitrary precision arithmetic.)

would it not be possible to do arbitrary precision arithmetic in 
languages that does not have it built-in, by coding it oneself?


bengt