After carefully examining and testing numerous submissions for the fractal contest, Appress have selected three winners; one winner per language group. The speedy execution of their codes have earned each of them the prize of an Ipod Shuffle. Well, except for Mr. David Coakley (program in C, 1.08 seconds): his code runs the fastest among all the submissions and he wins the grand prize of a Playstation Portable!
The winner for PHP group is Mathias Helm, which generation time is 2 minutes 28.7 seconds. You see, the PHP is somehow more than 100 times slower than C. My subscription entry is slower: 3 minutes 2.5 seconds. To tell the true, I could optimize it a little more, but I was disappointed with the slow run so I just sent the second or third optimized version of it. Anyway, I was quite happy to do it. Recall an old saying: "If something is worth doing, it's worth doing the best" or some thing like that. If someone had submitted the contest, please post your result and experience here?
http://www.apress.com/promo/fractal/result.html
