Re: Shootout (sum-file)

On 6 May, 06:22, Razik <hrtt...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:00:38 -0700 (PDT), Isaac Gouy
>
> <igo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >Why don't you go through all...
>
> Let's continue. Next we deal with sum-file...
>
> http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=sumcol&lang=...
>
> "Programs should use built-in line-oriented I/O functions rather than
> custom-code. No line will exceed 128 characters, including newline.
> Reading one line at a time, the programs should run in constant
> space."
>
> According to Haskel people,
>
> "Those guys tell us these benchmarks don't favor C and then impose a
> limit on line length? What's the purpose of that if not to allow the
> use of C's getline() primitive?"

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please don't post this to comp.lang.c

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