Given that their code is on github and many people criticized the unidiomatic nature of their code, wouldn't it make sense to set up a competition to improve th

Given that their code is on github and many people criticized the unidiomatic nature of their code, wouldn't it make sense to set up a competition to improve the code? Everyone can submit pull requests with their improved codes and the authors should simply rerun the codes on a standard machine to get a benchmark. Obviously, a couple of rules should apply: 1. when you improve the code, do not move any elements outside the benchmarked language, i.e., don't use mex files in Matlab, c++ in R etc. 2. maybe create two or three different versions of your code - single processor, multiple cpus, gpu and run it on a single machine with a predefined set up. This will remove at least some of the criticism thrown at the economists and has an additional benefit: researchers trying to find the best-suited language for their problem can not only use speed but also expressiveness, aesthetics, code length, boilerplate and ease of use to guide their decision.