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by AnanasAttack 2189 days ago
People do whatever they can to "win" on these benchmarks, so the resulting code is often not idiomatic
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The recommendation is to write only idiomatic code that implements a certain algorithm without tricks: https://salsa.debian.org/benchmarksgame-team/benchmarksgame/...

Did you actually see programs that do not follow the guidelines or you're just stating this as what you would expect?

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

Templating Lua here is probably borderline really.

Seems like those Lua fasta programs should be removed.
What someone else considers to be "idiomatic", you might not consider to be "idiomatic".