Could D compete in a competition like this?

[CraigDillabaugh via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 07:19:16 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> 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... :-/

OK, if they gave the hardware list then that makes sense.