Coding competitions

From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_mcmanis.com>
Date: Sat Apr 17 18:33:40 1999

Are a waste of time on separate architectures. We've basically seen the
benchmark discussion recreated in what is a somewhat classic vein. If there
were really old Usenet archives around you could search comp.sys.arch for
the keyword Dhrystone and get this same conversation all over again.

However, there are fun competitions, and I'll toss one out for y'all:

        Compute as many digits of pi as you can on a CARDIAC.

Lowest score wins, points scored as follows:
        +1 for every memory location used. (0 and 99 don't count)
        +4 for every space on the output card that doesn't
           contain part of the answer.

A card has 24 slots so submitting no program at all will score 96.

--Chuck
Received on Sat Apr 17 1999 - 18:33:40 BST