Stephen wrote: >Dave did manage one triumph this tournament -- he became the official >1000th golfer. I don't know if he fixed it though. :-)
It was a fix. There are 289 golfers in the PGAS database. My golfer_id of 1000 was an artifact of the BoG. Alas, there were no triumphs for Dave, only shame. That 200 line test was my bane of TPR(0,4b). Prior to its addition to the test script, I had a solution at 132 and falling. Once it was added, it invalidated all of my solutions. I was using a sort subroutine that was heavy on recursion which apparently sucked memory like my son eating a lollipop. The box I was working on (Red Hat 6.1) killed the program after chugging away for about a minute. This morale-buster along with the festivities of the US Independence Day weekend put me out of commission until 3 hours before course closure. I finally found a new algorithm that seemed to work, but with 3 minutes left it choked on the 200 line test and my world came crashing down around me. Ah, well, next time! --Dave
