It wasn't so much a fascination with speed as an attempt to (to quote from the debrief) produce an instance of "collaborative performance art". While I didn't make it along on the night, from all accounts it was quite impressive to hear the cheers go up when a team managed to solve the problem within the time limit. The nature of the problem, and Rob's setup, which I believe provided an update of the most recent compile's image output every 10-15 seconds, turned programming into a spectator sport. And no, most of the audience were not geeks.
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Lighttpd is no "custom build of apache". http://www.lighttpd.net/story
Personally I'd go for six.
It wasn't so much a fascination with speed as an attempt to (to quote from the debrief) produce an instance of "collaborative performance art". While I didn't make it along on the night, from all accounts it was quite impressive to hear the cheers go up when a team managed to solve the problem within the time limit. The nature of the problem, and Rob's setup, which I believe provided an update of the most recent compile's image output every 10-15 seconds, turned programming into a spectator sport. And no, most of the audience were not geeks.