OpenEuphoria

Re: $100 Contest Question

• Posted by Kat <gertie at PELL.NET> Mar 03, 2002
• 468 views

On 4 Mar 2002, at 10:20, Derek Parnell wrote:

> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ray Smith" <smithr at ix.net.au>
> To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
> Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 9:47 AM
> Subject: RE: $100 Contest Question
> 
> 
> > My PC at work (PIII 650 Windows 2000 Professional) does this
> > in 2.36 seconds (for a 4,121,548 bytes sized file)
> >
> 
> Okay, so I took the bait. I've now got it down from 4.33 seconds to 1.7
> seconds for that 4,267,462 byte file.

Ok, i bow out of the contest. It takes me 434 seconds (over 7 minutes) just 
to load a dictionary into memory. Building the dictionary from 3 files takes 72 
minutes. I took the premunge time to sort words by length, and i load only 
words corresponding in length to words present in the cyphered line. You are 
getting times 10x to 140x faster than i am. I concede.

Kat