[Shootout-list] Ackermann hacks

Isaac Gouy igouy2@yahoo.com
Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:37:18 -0800 (PST)


When you have the time, cast a critical eye on some of the other
programs, some of the other benchmarks.

We might not act on what you find-out.
We might not act immediately on what you find-out.
But we might.


--- Christian Szegedy <szegedy@t-online.de> wrote:
> In my opinion the top scoring alternative Ackermann solutions for C
> are against the rules of this benchmark.
> It contains a lot of dirty hacks like mathematical simplifications
> and manual unrolling of function calls.
> 
> It defies the goal of the banchmark, which is to measure the
> quality and usability of the compilers and expressability of
> languages.


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