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[Nick Perkins]

It seems that these tests are a bit unfair.
The test specifies that each program must work
'in the same way'.  The tests are specified as
algorithms, and tests of specific little operations.

A true 'shootout' would specify a 'goal',
a correct output, and not specify an algorithm.

Also, the tested source code is not published.
I bet that if the tested Python code were
posted on this ng, we could speed it up a bit
(or a lot)