On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 07:19:16 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 03:35:32 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh
wrote:
On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 13:10:12 UTC, Ola Fosheim
Grøstad wrote:
On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 13:01:36 UTC, Gary Willoughby
wrote:
Could D compete in a competition like this?
The guts will have to be done in assembly or Intel
intrinsics...
Why do you say that. Seems like picking the correct data
structure/algorithms would be of more importance than the
programming language. I don't see why this couldn't be made
'fast' with just about any programming language.
1. It is a basic spatial indexing problem. This is a heavily
researched GIS area.
2. They list the hardware.
But, they are cheating you: «All submissions will become
public-domain DLLs.» + «prize money will be awarded to the
three fastest solutions that are quicker than our fast
solution.»
They are basically trying to get "master-level students" to do
highly valuable work for "peanuts" in order to improve their
own commercial systems... :-/
OK, if they gave the hardware list then that makes sense.