> Some things in this contest that sound reasonable to me;
> Input and output are to memory resident buffers.
> Inline code is too boring, and subrountine calling too important, so the
> "task" should require perhaps modules; maybe make the contest half a dozen
> subroutines which get called from a contest defined main program (using
> some typical non asm language like C or pascal).
> Contest submissions could be a simple binary file, file length, predefined
> jump table for subroutines, the actual code. Some third party, can run the
> code and time it on the hardware of their choice.
Nice, but with these things, like internas of the system for input/output,
binary and similarities, you tie again all down to a single system to
use - we loose the idea of a cross platform competition where only basic
processor features are measured (see also the subject).
Gruss
H.
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Received on Tue Apr 20 1999 - 07:41:17 BST