OpenEuphoria

Re: $100 Contest Question

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Mar 03, 2002
• 450 views

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray Smith" <smithr at ix.net.au>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: RE: $100 Contest Question


>
>
> Derek Parnell wrote:
>
> > In comp#1, we are required to *encipher* some English text. As a trial,
> > I
> > combined all the Euphoria\DOC files in to a single file then copied that
> > file to itself a few times until I had a file that was 4,267,462 bytes
> > long.
> > My program takes about 4 seconds to encipher this file.
>
> What type of PC did you run this on Derek?
> My PC at work (PIII 650 Windows 2000 Professional) does this
> in 2.36 seconds (for a 4,121,548 bytes sized file)
>
> I haven't tried to optimise it yet (not sure what I could do really)
>
> Note: I won't be submitting my entry to contest 1 (I assume Derek
> won't either)
>

A PIII 550 Windows Me, 256Meg RAM, 13GB HD.

I only guessed at the time as I didn't actually put any timing coding in it.
Also, I have tried to optimise it either. Once I found out it ran so fast, I
couldn't see the point in doing any more tweaking.

And no, I won't be submitting any entries into any of the three
competitions. I will be submitting programs to Robert just for fun though.
More of a personal challenge than anything else.
----
Derek.