[Haskell-cafe] Re: Shootout summary

[Donald Bruce Stewart]

dons:
> haskell:
> > Summary of things entered and of things being worked on.
> > 
> > Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
> > > haskell:
> > > 
> > >>Simon Marlow wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>Hi Chris,
> > >>>
> > >>>Rather than try to explain what I'm going on about, I decided to tweak
> > >>>the code a bit myself.  My version is about 10% faster than yours, and
> > >>>doesn't use any explicit unboxery.  I've put it in the wiki after your
> > >>>version.
> > >>>
> > >>>http://www.haskell.org/hawiki/ChameneosEntry
> > >>>
> > >>>Could someone upload this to the shootout?
> > >>>
> > >>>Cheers,
> > >>>    Simon
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >>So no one else tries to submit this: I have just sent it to the shootout.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Perhaps we should submit some of the other entires on the wiki too? 
> > > 
> > > -- Don
> > > 
> > 
> > I updated their wiki pages before, but the following submissions are in
> > the pipeline.  I am using
> > 
> > https://alioth.debian.org/tracker/index.php?group_id=30402&atid=411646
> > 
> > as a way to query the Category == Haskell GHC
> >                       State == Any
> >                       Order by == ID Descending
> > 
> > On 6 Jan, I submitted:
> > sum-file was submitted (using Simon style implicit unboxery)
> > fasta was submitted (using Simon style implicit unboxery and which
> > should fix the memory leak)
> > chameneos was submitted (where Simon made the unboxing implicit)
> > On 5 Jan:
> > pidigit was submitted (Branimir Maksimovic's)
> 
> By the way, this pidigit seems to be several times slower than the one
> already submitted.

My apologies to the author, it's only a few percent, not several times slower.

-- Don