The phrase "a competing implementation" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to an alternative version of a software or system that serves the same purpose as another.
Example: "The new software offers a competing implementation that enhances performance compared to the previous version."
Alternatives: "an alternative implementation" or "a rival implementation".
For their own reasons, the miners, who are largely based in China, are reluctant to switch to a competing implementation of bitcoin, or push for changes.
SAS sued World Programming, the developers of a competing implementation, World Programming System, alleging that they had infringed SAS's copyright in part by implementing the same functionality.
Our framework outperformed all competing implementations, managing to execute significantly faster on the same workloads and scale better for larger datasets, as a result of our optimizations and its ability to execute in a single distributed session.
Such a patent policy promotes open collaboration amongst companies, as noted by Rosen [34]: "When major software companies cooperate openly to develop industry standards in organizations like W3C and IETF, few of them have much incentive to demand royalties or impose burdens on competing implementations" (p. 7).
Due to the complex and nuanced semantics of PHP, defined by how Zend works, it is difficult for competing implementations to offer complete compatibility.
The computational speed of RNAfold compares quite favorably to that of the competing implementations, Figure 2B, although all the implementations of thermodynamic folding algorithms use essentially the same energy model and algorithmic framework, and hence have the same asymptotic runtime and memory consumption.
We discuss practical implementation of the proposed model; we investigate a competing risk version of the process; and we identify the classes of cellular dependencies that may influence the expectation of the process and those that do not.
The need for action in the implementation of infection control measures should not be seen as a competing priority with research support, especially where resources are limited.
an individual rather than a competing REIT.
In addition, we provide means for assessing competing protocol implementations and for selecting the most suited one for a particular communication task, based on the requirements imposed by applications and users.
They too have yet to prove that they are serious about "co-operating on the standards and competing on the implementation", as Sun puts it.
