MIT Video Game Programming Competition in Java

Posted by Hemos on Monday January 17, 2005 @01:01AM from the the-joys-of-battle dept.

A reader writes:"252 MIT students are spending the month of January writing Java programs to control virtual robots in a videogame environment called Robocraft. These virtual robots will battle each other for cash prizes in a tournament to see who can write the best Robocraft player. The competition is being sponsored by top tech companies including Bank of America, Electronic Arts, BBN, Schlumberger, Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Oracle. Only MIT students are eligible to compete, but anyone can read the specs, download the software, and program their own virtual robot using the Robocraft API."

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Bytecode Clock by dolmen.fr · 2005-01-17 03:42 · Score: 2, Interesting

One particular feature of the game rules is that time is measured by counting executed bytecodes. So we can expect that contestants will aim to produce very efficient code.

Do you know any Java compiler benchmark that compares generated bytecode?