It looks like a joke to me. The program always just calls exit(0); straight away...

		krig on Nov 16, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Proof that Scheme will never be faster than C It looks like a joke to me. The program always just calls exit(0); straight away if the main function is the expected one, which is why it's so fast. All the rest is just noise to hide that. All he seems to be saying is that the competition could be won by implementing fastroot() as just calling exit(0).

Thanks. The choice of ;=) as the operator did make me suspicious.