[Shootout-list] acknowledging submissions to the shootout

[Glenn Parker]

I have recently contributed three Ruby programs to the shootout (nsieve, 
sieve-bits, fannkuch), the first via e-mail to the list and other two 
using the message form.  So far, I have not seen any indication that my 
contributions were received and whether or not they were acceptable.

Much as I enjoy writing Ruby code, I am hesitant to spend more time 
filling in the missing Ruby benchmarks without getting at least some 
minimal feedback.  I hope this is not an unreasonable request.  If you 
folks are completely swamped with submissions and are trying valiantly 
to catch up, then I can wait.  Otherwise, a brief acknowledgement would 
be appreciated.

On a related note, the Ruby ackermann benchmark is currently shown as 
failing.  The code is valid, but the Ruby interpreter is running out of 
stack space when N=10.  To fix this, it will be necessary to increase 
the stack space limit using ulimit before running the benchmark.  I 
don't know exactly how much higher the limit will need to be, but it's 
something you might want to think about for any benchmark where heavy 
recursion is likely, e.g. ackermann.

Regards,
Glenn

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