[MPlayer-dev-eng] [OT] C-code Optimiation Contest

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 05:21:34PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> Felix Buenemann writes:
>  > On Tuesday 15 July 2003 17:23, Florian-Wolfgang Stock wrote:
>  > > Btw, how fast was the winning team?
>  > it reached 70% of effective fractional, but dunno how to calculate that 
>  > factional to compare.
>  > Our solution had 45% and Intels Reference code hat 89%. 3rd place had 19% or 
>  > so.
> 
> Third place was done by my friend Thomas in only half an hour.  He
> reached 19.9%, so I think he deserves a special honour for time
> efficiency (even though he is a C++ hacker) ;) 

"C++ hacker"?? Isn't this what one calls an oxymoron.... :))))))))

Rich