1. RE: NEVERMIND! Re: Cool Christmas Contest
spent memory wrote:
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> wtf , i can't work out how you thought "*because i requested where to...
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I don't think her sarcasm was directed at you, just at the imensity of
her own task.
She found similarity to the contest, with her own project, that she is
obviously frustrated with.
Chris Bensler
Code is Alchemy
2. RE: NEVERMIND! Re: Cool Christmas Contest
On 27 Oct 2004, at 8:49, Chris Bensler wrote:
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> spent memory wrote:
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> > wtf , i can't work out how you thought "*because i requested where to...
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> I don't think her sarcasm was directed at you, just at the imensity of
> her own task.
> She found similarity to the contest, with her own project, that she is
> obviously frustrated with.
Yes, i was talking of a real-world situation, not a game. Like Irv said, i don't
think there is a way a single pc can do this, and i am not so sure Eu can do
it either.
Kat
3. RE: NEVERMIND! Re: Cool Christmas Contest
Kat wrote:
> i don't think there is a way a single pc can do this,
> and i am not so sure Eu can do it either.
Let's start with a smaller sample then, Kat, and work up from there! :)
-=ck
"Programming in a state of EUPHORIA."
http://www.cklester.com/euphoria/
4. RE: NEVERMIND! Re: Cool Christmas Contest
- Posted by "Kat" <gertie at visionsix.com>
Oct 27, 2004
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Last edited Oct 28, 2004
On 27 Oct 2004, at 11:46, cklester wrote:
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> posted by: cklester <cklester at yahoo.com>
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> Kat wrote:
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> > i don't think there is a way a single pc can do this,
> > and i am not so sure Eu can do it either.
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> Let's start with a smaller sample then, Kat, and work up from there! :)
Stay with the toy and game level, and not deal with real-world cases?
I already have the data here. Google is now "worth" usd$50.8 billion, Yahoo
is just under that. How is that for incentive?
Google has a few thousand terabytes of storage, i have a few gigabytes on
one small topic, i *am* dealing with small potatoes here. Others have said
here that they have 80,000 plus records, i am saying i have 6 directories with
80K each, and that makes the size only 6 times bigger. But, if their 80K db
can be searched/indexed/inserted for one record, or all matches of a wildcard
located, in 10 sec, that's a minute for mine, being 6 times larger on that one
topic. There's more than one topic. Surely you can see where fine tuning a
sequential program to deal with this would quickly drag to a crawl on
terabytes, and might never finish. Surely you remember since i have been on
this listserv i have pressed for interprocess communication (and goto), and
communication off the motherbd (web, parallel/serial port, etc), and string
manipulation (strtok, strings.e, type: string, etc). The real world isn't one
document, one game, one file, one harddrive, or even one computer. Right
now, i am using 6 other computers out across the usa and europe on
megabit lines, and i could use more! And rather sadly for Eu, they aren't
using Euphoria, and i am not using Eu to communicate with them.
No matter how you play with that one Shakespeare file, it won't scale to a
common index of billions of files on a parallel cpu system.
Kat
5. RE: NEVERMIND! Re: Cool Christmas Contest
- Posted by cklester <cklester at yahoo.com>
Oct 27, 2004
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Last edited Oct 28, 2004
Kat wrote:
> No matter how you play with that one Shakespeare file, it won't scale to a
> common index of billions of files on a parallel cpu system.
But I've gotta start SOMEWHERE. If not there, then...
...give me something to start with that isn't the entire ocean. How about
just a lake (3 directories, 15K each) or a stream (2 directories, 10K each)?
You never know what I (or another set of eyes) might come up with, so don't
fail us before you even let us try.
-=ck
"Programming in a state of EUPHORIA."
http://www.cklester.com/euphoria/
