From bruce at hoult.org  Mon Aug  6 06:41:57 2001
From: bruce at hoult.org (Bruce Hoult)
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 16:41:57 +1200
Subject: ICFP elimination round
Message-ID: <a05101002b793cd6e22a7@[192.168.0.2]>

The ICFP Programming Contest judges have published the test files 
they are using for the elimination round, at:

    <http://cristal.inria.fr/ICFP2001/prog-contest/inputs/>

There are four files:

  000-example.txt        Same file published during the contest
  001-null.txt           empty file
  002-almost-empty.txt   <PL></PL>
  003-third-step.txt     lots of test cases


The good news is that our entry(s) pass on all these tests, although 
for some unknown reason we fail to improve the <PL></PL> test to an 
empty file :-(  Even a single space or carriage return anywhere in 
the input results in us optimizing it into nothingness, but somehow 
not those nine characters and nothing else.


There are links to web pages by about a dozen teams.  As far as I can 
tell, we are better than almost all of them.  Lots of the teams 
discovered bugs after submitting, and lots of others didn't implement 
<PL> at all.

-- Bruce