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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">If you're using the
server, please join our IRC channel #dfwpm on irc.perl.org<br>
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As the contest nears, more and more people are using the server <b>at
the same time.</b> This makes it difficult to really prove and
benchmark your code because other people are pushing the server
already. If you join IRC we can do cooperative runs where <b>everyone
takes turns</b>.<br>
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--Tommy Butler<br>
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