Rather than interminable discussions about inane
benchmarks, how about a problem from ITA Software,
the same people that posed the problem for
http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essays/Queens_and_Knights

http://www.itasoftware.com/careers/puzzles07.html

Sling Blade Runner

"How long a chain of overlapping movie titles, 
like Sling Blade Runner, can you find?"

Use the following listing of movie titles: 
http://www.itasoftware.com/careers/puzzles/MOVIES.LST
Multi-word overlaps, as in "License to Kill a 
Mockingbird," are allowed. The same title may not 
be used more than once in a solution. Optimize for the greatest number of 
titles in the chain.
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