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When posting a fastest-code challenge, what do I need to bear in mind? Unlike with code-golf challenges, where the score is simply the number of bytes in the source code, for a fastest-code challe...
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trichoplax
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2023-02-27T01:26:31Z (over 1 year ago)
Hosting fastest code challenges
When posting a [fastest-code](https://codegolf.codidact.com/categories/49/tags/5329 "Posts tagged fastest-code") challenge, what do I need to bear in mind? Unlike with [code-golf](https://codegolf.codidact.com/categories/49/tags/4274 "Posts tagged code-golf") challenges, where the score is simply the number of bytes in the source code, for a fastest-code challenge the time taken to run will be different on different machines. What options are there for defining an objective way to measure the score of an submission? Does this necessarily involve the challenge host running all of the submissions on their own machine? How can I ensure the challenge is suitable for as many programming languages as possible (not excluding languages which are unlikely to top the leaderboard but where optimising might still be an interesting problem - competing against other submissions in the same language)?