<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 1 February 2012 10:18, Chris Parsons <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chris.p@rsons.org">chris.p@rsons.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><br><div><div>On 1 Feb 2012, at 07:14, Matthew Rudy Jacobs wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On 1 February 2012 15:05, Chris Parsons <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chris.p@rsons.org" target="_blank">chris.p@rsons.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word">Also, a gentle reminder that I'm still waiting for talk suggestions for the annual crowd sourced lightening talk.</div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>How about a Ruby Shootout for a non-trivial application.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Could take one of the battleship robots from last year</div><div>test their problem solving speed in 1.8.7, 1.9.2, 1.9.3, jruby, jruby (in 1.9 mode), maglev, rubinius ...</div></div>
</blockquote><br></div><div>[CC'd to list]</div><div><br></div><div>Interesting idea: should we do battleship robots, or is there another application people would like to see tested?</div></div></blockquote><div><br>
</div><div>I recall that the winning solution was quite slow for the first couple of turns (getting faster as the board filled up and there were fewer options to compare). It might be a good test purely because it was so intensive.</div>
<div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Chris</div>
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