At 09:54 -0500 2007/12/04, John Randall wrote:
>Looks like a nice solution, and one that exploits the strengths of J.
>
>However, you should be aware that the Shootout has rejected all J
>solutions in the past on the grounds that J is not open source.
Once upon a time that may have been correct - although we don't seek to
be an unpaid billboard for commercial software, afaict there isn't a
license condition that would prevent us from publishing measurements of
J32 Linux.
I think the main issue is that the benchmarks game requires most
problems to be solved in a particular way and it's just "not done that
way in j" - when we say don't slurp in the whole file, we mean don't
slurp in the whole file.
I'm not interested in squabbling about how arbitrary and stupid that is
- it is what it is, take it or leave it.
As a consequence of the concise nature of J programs we'd also insist
on very explicit comments so that readers could decide for themselves
whether J programs were keeping to the arbitrary and stupid
restrictions.
The other issue is that we're not interested in showing the 5 or 10
programs that are really fast and ignoring the other 15 or 10 that
aren't - we'd want to see ~15 programs.
best wishes, Isaac
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