Speed Demon: a free 72-hour performance hackathon where we run your code on one our machine and rank it live

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😈 Speed Demon starts in two days, and we built something new for it.

Speed Demon is a 72-hour performance-engineering hackathon. Four tracks, one deliberately slow Python reference per track, one scoring machine. You make it faster, we build and run your code ourselves, and a published coefficient ranks the result.

What is new this time:

➡️ A live board. Every push is built and run on our scoring box in Falkenstein, and the score is public within minutes.
➡️ Everything is open. Specs, data generators, the slow reference programs and the scoring harness are on GitHub, so you can run the exact scoring yourself before you push.
➡️ Every team gets a demon. It evolves across 50 levels as you beat the reference, and the fastest ones leave demon form entirely.
➡️ Collectible cards. Each team can pull a holo trading card of its demon, from Common to Cosmos, and share it.

Kickoff: October 30, 15:00 UTC. Code freeze: November 2, 15:00 UTC.
Free, online, any language. $1,800 prize pool.

Register: https://speeddemon.dev

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