OpenEuphoria

Re: Contest #3 Lookups

• Posted by petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk Mar 18, 2002
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On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 05:13:44 +0000, "C. K. Lester"
<cklester at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>I think we need to level the playing field regarding the dictionary or 
>pattern searches in contest #3. If I'm using a search that is slower 
>than Billy's, but my decipher algorithm returns a more accurate list of 
>possible solutions, the contest isn't about deciphering... it's about 
>speed. If my program returns all solutions in 5:01, or even 10:00, why 
>should I be disqualified for that?! Put my proggie on a faster chip and 
>you've got it in less than 5 minutes...
>
>Contest #3 is NOT about the speed of your search but of returning valid 
>cipher solutions. THEREFORE, I say the fastest pattern search algorithm 
>(determined by contest #2) should be made public for contest #3 
>participants.
>
>Am I way off base here?

My entry for #2 takes 190 seconds to do chris' test, his takes just 15
seconds. Since I haven't coded for #3 to call it 40,000 times to
decipher even quite a long sentence, it is not going to make a
difference to me.

Pete