OpenEuphoria

RE: $100 Contest Question

• Posted by bensler at mail.com Mar 03, 2002
• 436 views

The 5 minutes is total program run time. Not runtime for each iteration.

Chris

<SNIP>
> You realise, at 5 minutes runtime per iteration, that's 83 hours? If you 
> get 
> 100 such entries, that's 345 DAYS of runtime for testing problem #2 
> programs.
>  
> > Derek Parnell writes:
> > > On a similar point I made the assumption that a pattern of {4,6,9} is
> > > equivalent to {1,2,3}. In other words, the actual value of the pattern
> > > characters is not important, only that they represent a unique character 
> > > in
> > > the target word(s).
> > 
> > Yes, that's correct.
> > 
> > Aku writes:
> > > (Problem #1) How is the time calculated?
> > > How many iteration (loops) will it be tested?
> > 
> > I'm planning to run each program once,
> > with a few megabytes of input text.
> 
> *megabytes*? of the same few sentences repeated ad naseum, with 
> different 
> keys? Or will you be feeding it a online book text with unique sentences 
> and 
> the same key for all sentences? 
>  
> Kat
> 
>