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From: braver <deliverable@gmail.com>
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Subject: Wide Finder in Ada?
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 17:37:40 -0800
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Tim Bray has a fantastic parallel programming challenge, Wide Finder,
running at full speed:

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/10/30/WF-Results

It originated by trying parallel Erlang live up to regular Ruby.  Now
the top contenders are JoCaml -- parallel OCaml, Python, and there're
many implementations in Erlang, Haskell, and even things like PHP and /
bin/sh.  (This is the first place where I've heard "parallel gawk".)

Given the target box is Sun with 8 cores, Ada would shine there is my
guess.  Perhaps some pro here could beat JoCaml?

Cheers,
Alexy