On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 07:59, Daniël Mantione <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One time, during a programming contest, the jury had written their solution > to a problem in Java. A 10MB output file had to be written. Their > implementation took about 15 minutes and took about 60 MB of memory. > > During the contest, I was the first one to solve the problem and my program, > of course coded with FPC, took something like 0,15s while using 200k of > memory.
I have a related story -- the jury of the famous ACM ICPC (http://icpc.baylor.edu/) has disallowed Delphi language a few years ago (only C/C++ and Java remain). The rumored reason was that Delphi gives "unfair advantage" to teams (mostly Russian ones) using it. -- Alexander S. Klenin Insight Experts Ltd.
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