For last year, I was sure that computing speed does matter, and setup a parallel python running environment for the competition (not that it really helped that much).
This year I have been traveling abroad during the competition, and had to do round 1B from a computer which is ~7 years old (PIII 700 MHz, 128 MB of RAM). Run-time for the solutions wasn't the problem though - all of them finished within less than a minute, with a rather slow programing language (I use python). Main difficulty was the fact that task switching on this computer takes ages, so I had to wait 30 seconds to switch from browser to editor and back. I will be home for next round :) --Shachar On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Bartholomew Furrow <[email protected]> wrote: > Sometimes solutions run near the limit, and it can help to have fast > hardware; I'd like to think this is the exception rather than the rule. > With that said, it's a shame when it does happen. I'm hoping you can think > of an optimization or two that would have brought the runtime down by some > constant factor, so that you could have done it even with 2x slower > hardware. > Incidentally, an alternative was to do precomputation. I didn't work on > that problem myself, but I think it was a way around doing a lot of > computation during the 8 minutes. > Also it was apparently solvable within 20 seconds in C++, though as I > mentioned I don't know how. :-) Terence, would you mind linking your > solution? > Bartholomew > > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:00 PM, cyberfish <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Just thought I should point out that, for the large input of question >> A (round 1A), my program solved it in a little under 7 minutes on my >> computer (a Core 2 Duo overclocked to 3.3ghz). A slower computer may >> not have made it, so I think this gives an unfair advantage to people >> with fast computers (like myself) :). >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "google-codejam" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
