Great Computer Language Shootout Revived

[Charles Steinkuehler]

Gerald Combs wrote:
> Jason Clinton wrote:
> 
>> Let the flame wars begin:
>> 
>> http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/index.php

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> On the "Reverse A File" problem I noticed the following:
> 
>   - The bash solution is downright funny.
>   - The gcc solution used more memory than the bash solution.
>   - I would've expected the gforth solution to fare better.  Maybe
>     it's an iterpreted-vs-compiled issue.

Yeah, it doesn't quite seem like the bash solution should be allowed.

The bash solution to the word count problem is similar...

I've played a bit with the bash version of the Fibonacci problem.  I've 
gotten about a 2x speed improvement (by using case instead of if, and 
switching to return <value> instead of echo <value>, but it's broken 
(result is mod 256, due to 8-bit return value) and it still takes over 
20 minutes on a 750 MHz system (cutoff is 5 minutes on a 1.1G athlon).

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Charles Steinkuehler
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