On Sep 13, Bob Showalter said:
I need help with an algorithm. I'm writing a program that sends a repeated
pattern of requests to a service. Each request has a "weight" that controls
the relative frequency with which I need to send that particular request.
foo => 1
bar => 1
qux => 6
foo
qux qux qux
bar
qux qux qux
Now I have only intervals of 0 or 1 between successive "qux", instead of an
interval of 2 as in the previous case.
As an extreme example, if I had a dozen requests with a weight of 1 and a
final request with a weight of 12, I would "starve" the highly-weighted
request until the first 12 had been sent.
The extreme cases are the easy ones, though. What I'd like to see are
cases like:
foo => 1
bar => 2
qux => 3
baz => 4
zip => 5
Once I know what the algorithm's outcome should be for something like
that, I think I can develop it.
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