[mercury-users] This Year's Mercury Entry for the ICF 2001 Contest

[Ralph Becket]

> Actually it is one of the Mercury entries.  Entry 242, team "Busy
Weekend"
> was ranked about 40th in the performance round, which is quite
suprising
> because it didn't even implement all the optimizations suggested in
the
> spec.

Sorry, 3 pint brain failure (DJ arrived in town).  "Exhaustion" was
ranked no. 5, sharing with three others, before being eliminated.

> It had quite a simple strategy, unlike Ralphs entry, where it tried a
simple
> optimization, verified that the before and after documents were the
same and
> then, tried the next simple optimization.  This was done until a fix
point
> was reached, unfortunately it looks like our fixpoint code was
incorrect so
> instead it kept running until time ran out.

But (damn that space) it did have the virtue of producing correct 
output.

- Ralph
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