From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2010-08-19T23:36:58+09:00
Subject: Re: ICFP 2007 - Save Endo!

On Aug 19, 2010, at 7:57 AM, Andrew Wagner wrote:

> I'm thinking about working on the problem from ICFP
> 2007<http://save-endo.cs.uu.nl/>in ruby. I'm sure a lot of
> optimization will be necessary to come up with a
> solution that runs fast enough to be of any value. But I'm wondering if even
> that's good enough. That is, I'm wondering if Ruby is even fast enough to
> solve this.
> 
> Has anybody tried this, or does anyone know of a ruby solution?

I worked on it during the problem:

  http://grayproductions.net/icfp07/

It's a heavy optimization problem, so Ruby is pretty painfully slow with it and probably not a great fit.

James Edward Gray II