[Shootout-list] Re: Python Reverse Complement

[Alan Post]

In article <20050315193710.80509.qmail@web60509.mail.yahoo.com>, Isaac Gouy wrote:
> There are some more comments on reverse complement here:
> http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/1a72f10772a8d256/c011a715b6d6974e#c011a715b6d6974e

What is the goal of the reverse-complement benchmark?  Another measure
of line-by-line reading from stdin?  I searched the list archives but
couldn't find any discussion of why reverse-complement is useful.

  Alan