This is a very old (I think > 15 years ago) competition, the results say nothing about the situation today, both language have changed a lot. It was a PR stunt

This is a very old (I think > 15 years ago) competition, the results say nothing about the situation today, both language have changed a lot. It was a PR stunt by the Synopsys guys who a that time wanted to kill VHDL. The VHDL guys had to work with slow & broken VHDL simulators. The the problem was devised by verilog enthusiasts. All VHDL engineers who showed up (in much smaller numbers than verilog engineers) felt like they they didn't have a fair chance.