Re: Christmas gift - new game
- Posted by Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen <nieuwen at XS4ALL.NL> Dec 22, 1998
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>What algorithm did you use ? >Or did you make up your own ? >If so, chances are it can get pretty speed with Euphoria. Most algorithm use >some sort of 'I already have this written down somewhere' and need to 'find' >it. A finding procces can usually be sped up a lot using hash-tables, >esspecially in Euphoria you can do *that* pretty fast. And I forgot, one of the biggest bottle necks in Euphoria is IO due to the conversion of bytes etc to 4-byte machine integers, etc. and the fact that you have to check if it is -1 every time in your code. Jaquesch Deschenes (I think I misspelled his name now) had an library for this that might be much much faster. You can have you code deal 4 bytes being 4-byte machine integers, and have the library handle the file one big cached block at the time. I would say, put profile_time on and just see where you the speed is going to and eh.. where not. Ralf