On 8/7/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Donald Bruce Stewart</b> <<a href="mailto:dons@cse.unsw.edu.au">dons@cse.unsw.edu.au</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>No idea. You could compile them all with -O2, run them on a set of<br>puzzles, and produce a table of results :-)</blockquote><div><br>Well I could, but I wont ;-) If you had to guess which one is fastest which one would you guess?
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I'm a little surprised no one's tried a parallel solution yet, actually.<br>
We've got an SMP runtime for a reason, people!<br></blockquote></div><br>Funny that you should mention that, this was actually one of the Topcoder marathon match contests for multithreading:<br><br><a href="http://www.topcoder.com/longcontest/?module=ViewProblemStatement&compid=5624&rd=9892">
http://www.topcoder.com/longcontest/?module=ViewProblemStatement&compid=5624&rd=9892</a><br><br>(you'll need to login to see the problem statement, but basically it's Sudoku, on a 16-core Xeon (I think))<br>
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