OpenEuphoria

RE: $100 Contest Question

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

Can someone give me a benchmark for problme#2?

Total run time, number of iterations, and the filter/s used
I need to know if I'm in the ball park, or if I need to reconsider my 
implementation.

Chris


euman at bellsouth.net wrote:
> Kat did you try my posted routine yet?
> 
> This builds a alphabetical 'A' to 'Z' sequence
> that allows for text length upto 26 letters
> 
> example
> 
> "A," -- length (1)
> "AD,AH,AL,AM,AN,AS,AT,AU,AW,AX,AY," -- length (2)
> "ABC,ABE,ABO,ACE,ACT,ADA,ADD,ADO,ADS,ADZ,AFT,AGE, etc..etc" -- length 
> (3)
> "ABBA,ABBE,ABBY,ABED,ABEL,ABET,ABLE,ABLY,ABUT,ACES,ACHE,ACID, etc...etc" 
> -- length (4)
> 
> down to length (26)
> then starts over with the next beginning letter (B,C,D out to Z)
> 
> 3.5 sec on my 233mhz but instead of the text I presented it will be 
> UNIQUE numerical values 
> that represent the text.
> 
> Later,
> 
> Euman
> euman at bellsouth.net
> 
> Q: Are we monetarily insane?
> A: YES
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kat" <gertie at PELL.NET>
> To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
> Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 8:02 PM
> Subject: Re: $100 Contest Question
> 
> 
> > 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
> > 
> >