[Haskell-cafe] Re: Re[4]: In-place modification

[Hugh Perkins]

On 7/16/07, Bulat Ziganshin <bulat.ziganshin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Topcoder certainly isn't about benchmarking.  Undoubtedly, it would be
> > absolutely awesome to be able to use Haskell in topcoder... but it
> > wouldn't say anything about speed.  My guess is that practically no
> > topcoder submissions fail by exceeding the allowable time limit.  The
> > competition (the alg one, which is the only one anyone really cares
> > about) is about solving problems quickly (in programmer time) and
> > accurately.
>
> that's ideal for haskell. like ICFP, if they will allow haskell code,
> then all winer solutions will be written using it
>

Careful. Although writer's solution (the "reference" solution) must run in
under 1 second in Java, many problems run really close to the 2-second limit
in practice.  That means if your language is inherently 30% slower, you may
fail the harder problems.
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