> With the prowess of this group, I'm really surprised no one did it > hand coded assembler.
I am rather disappointed that nobody submitted an efficient C/C++ solution, except for Jason's gperf one. I can understand why - it takes a while to code, and I offered on prize money for winning the CPU contest. And the guys that know how to write it already have jobs they like, I suppose, and are quite busy.
As good as the optimizers are today, if you write good C, the optimizer will most likely beat human-coded assembler. However, I do not think that good Java will beat good C on this.
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