OpenEuphoria

RE: Defining long constants - do-able but not exactly elegant

• Posted by bensler at mail.com Mar 14, 2002
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What are you using to read in the file data?
get(), gets() or getc()?

Can you give an example of what is taking so long?

I used to play with Eu on my 486DX 100mhz, and I never noticed any 
significant file loading times. Granted, I never tried opening any 50Mb 
files.


Chris


Kat wrote:
> On 14 Mar 2002, at 0:55, Andy Serpa wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Kat wrote:
> > > 
> > > What's wrong with simply gets()ing a text file of any length you want, 
> > > edited 
> > > any way you want, and displayed any way you want, in any editor you 
> > > want, rather than cluttering up the code files?
> > > 
> > 
> > Yeah, that's what I was gonna say.  The rules for #3 don't preclude you 
> > from loading in any file you want (except machine code, or something 
> > like that).  The program I'm working on loads in a "pre-hashed" 
> > dictionary, along with some other stuff, instead of wasting time on that 
> > 
> > everytime it starts....
> 
> I found loading the pre-munged data took way longer than grabbing the 
> plain 
> dictionary. Near as i can tell, it's the stuffing into 3-deep nested 
> sequences 
> that is eating the time. Maybe i should try making them a set length in 
> each 
> nest with the repeat() from the start. But munging dictionaries took 
> forever 
> too. Anyhoo, like i said, i am out of the contest, i can write the code, 
> but it 
> won't execute in time. It's so wierd, because the grammar parser runs 
> faster 
> than loading the dictionary for this contest.
> 
> What bugs me a little about real-world apps using these cypto-solvers is 
> that 
> anyone with a reason to use them would have more than one paragraph to 
> solve, and loading and dictionary munging time would be inconsequential, 
> 
> because they'd be turned on and left running, looking for input. (I 
> leave one 
> mining program running sometimes, it goes active when the other programs 
> 
> feed it an url.) But then, these guys have load time down to sub-second 
> times, so,, errr, nevermind.
> 
> Kat
> 
>