Shootout precedent (was: Announcing regex-tre-0.66 and benchmarks)

[Ketil Malde]

Chris Kuklewicz <haskell at list.mightyreason.com> writes:

>> // (On Debian: apt-get install libboost-regex-dev before compiling,
>> //  and then "g++ -O3 -lboost_regex regexdna.cc -o regexdna
>> //  Gentoo seems to package boost as, well, 'boost')

> Which is a strange precedent.

Hmm.. I have a version of KNucleotide that uses a compressed index
from a C library, and which I think beat all other entries by a
healthy margin.  I dismissed this, since it is using non-standard
libraries, but perhaps it is allowed after all?

-k
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