On Friday, September 9, 2016 at 6:25:38 PM UTC-7, kortschak wrote:
>
> Can you explain the rationale behind the classification of libraries as 
> libraries or not libraries? It seems pretty arbitrary. 
>
> (I'm interested from a sociological perspective, but not enough to 
> bother to go to the benchmarks game discussion forum). 
>


>From a sociological perspective:

mid-May, contributors of k-nucleotide programs that used a custom 
written-for-k-nucleotide hash table were notified that those programs would 
no longer be shown, but programs that used a built-in / library hash table 
would be acceptable.

Within a few days, a couple of Rust contributors were discussing the 
concerns they had about the performance of std::collections::HashMap but 
reached an impasse. The lack of a Rust k-nucleotide program was mentioned a 
couple of times in the following months.

A week ago, someone posted their idea for a possible implementation to a 
Rust forum - it was discussed, improved, re-written and two different 
programs contributed.

One person ("not a native English speaker") thought it was odd to allow:

import it.unimi.dsi.fastutil.longs.Long2IntOpenHashMap;

No one seems to have needed to discuss what was meant by library, like sascha 
they seem to think they understood what was expected.


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