Well, sure a faster computer would help somewhat, but will not substitute for a good algorithm. In fact, the big input limits are clearly set in such values that you should immediately see that it's not just a matter of throwing CPU cycles at the problem... for instance, I just tried my solution for Theme Park on my old home server (700MHz Pentium 3 with 300MB RAM) and it ran in 2 minutes. Sure, it's a lot worse than my current laptop (2GHz Core2Duo 2GB RAM which clocked in at 21s with the same code) but you get the idea - a good algorithm was capable of solving the big input within the required time, even on ancient hardware.
I would think it's very unlikely that you'd fail a submission due to hardware limitations. 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.
