Much Needed Dwite Modification

[aramadia]

In order to solve some of the older DWITE problems I ended up writing my own judge but it became tedious downloading input and output files. I am hoping that the contest developers can make the judge be constantly online like MIPT or UVA. Has this been already proposed? Or is it a problem with lack of computing power or time?

[Nick]

the judge is ran from Dan's computer and manually fixed, I don't think Dan would want it to be on 24/7 =/

[Tony]

There's a couple of problems with this.

1st - certain submissions still tend to crash or lock up the judge, which requires constant supervision. It's gotten a lot better over the season, but some students find new and creative ways to write bad (or at least, different) code. Some things you just don't account for (like submitting binary files) until you run into them.

2nd - some of the supported environments (Turing, every programming language that starts with V, etc) require Windows OS to run. Turing is a pain to run as it is, without layers of virtualization.

So... maybe later, and it wouldn't run certain things.