Could D compete in a competition like this?

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On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 03:35:32 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh 
wrote:
> On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 13:10:12 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
> wrote:
>> On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 13:01:36 UTC, Gary Willoughby 
>> wrote:
>>> Could D compete in a competition like this?
>>
>> The guts will have to be done in assembly or Intel 
>> intrinsics...
>
> Why do you say that.  Seems like picking the correct data 
> structure/algorithms would be of more importance than the 
> programming language.  I don't see why this couldn't be made 
> 'fast' with just about any programming language.

1. It is a basic spatial indexing problem. This is a heavily 
researched GIS area.

2. They list the hardware.

But, they are cheating you: «All submissions will become 
public-domain DLLs.» + «prize money will be awarded to the three 
fastest solutions that are quicker than our fast solution.»

They are basically trying to get "master-level students" to do 
highly valuable work for "peanuts" in order to improve their own 
commercial systems... :-/