As of 2008 I used a P4, never really had any issue related to execution time, and managed to get in top 500...
For 2009 I got a core 2 duo. I actually find it difficult not to run a solution in time since that purchase... Anyway, from my perspective: - RAM and fast HD. Not really because you'll need it (albeit not having to worry about memory makes dp solutions much easier) but because it will save your computer from locking terribly if you make certain bugs that make it eat all your memory:/ ... - If you got money and want to use it to improve your GCJ experience. IMHO Spend in two things : ISP and a UPS unit. Your ISP should have decent speed but most importantly should be reliable. You don't want to lose a round because you didn't have internet access. Ditto with the UPS. Basically, once you have a core 2 duo you should begin to worry more about external factors and your own algorithmic skill than your CPU. Since it is a dual core processor, you shall try managing to do some parallel programming, you can make it so your program runs half of the input in a different thread/process, this way you will make use of the whole CPU. But the reality is that as long as you got the correct solution, it should not matter that much. On May 9, 11:29 pm, tonka <[email protected]> wrote: > hi, this is a general question to all coding fans...for running > programs fairly fast what kind of computer should one use? what should > be the minimum processor and memory requirement? i am currently using > 1gb of ram but i am planning on increasing this. is this going to help > solving problems faster esp. for the large input files or should i go > for processor upgrade?( i am currently using core2duo) > thanks in advance. > > -- > 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 > athttp://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en. -- 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.
