A LiveCD would do the trick too, as long as you boot up with plenty of time to spare.
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 4:44 AM, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]>wrote: > Yeah, the time limits on ideone mean any solution that works but is > borderline slow won't work out. I've written plenty of gcj solutions > that had a runtime of a minute or two. Or even 20 seconds, which is > pushing it for ideone. It's a lot faster to wait 2 minutes (and get a > headstart on the next problem description) than to figure out another > optimization. > > I have an alternative suggestion for you. Amazon EC2. They cost 8.5 > cents an hour, you'd need it for about 6 hours (I'm including some > practicing time, and installing go and a few other tools, and getting > familiar with ec2), so that's half a dollar. You can pick a ready-made > ubuntu 'AMI' (amazon disk image). Install go, apt-get a few useful > command line tools (vim or emacs), or use a 'mount remote system as a > disk via ssh' tool (There's one for macs called MacFuse, developed by > google no less, I presume there's something similar for windows), so > you can edit your go program. > > The major disadvantage here is that AMI boxes aren't that fast, so > what my processor would chug through in 2 minutes will probably 'time > out' (exceed 8 minutes) on a standard EC2 virtual box. You could > instead spring for the biggest virtual machine you can get. An Extra- > Large high CPU is $0.68 an hour. You can prepare an AMI image with > just the environment you need so you only launch the high CPU for the > contest itself. > > Alternatively, install Sun VirtualBox on your windows computer and > install linux on that. > > On Jun 1, 11:56 am, Luke Pebody <[email protected]> wrote: > > I would quite like to use GO as a programming language in future Jams. > > However, since I use Windows, I would need to use an online server > > like ideone.com to run my programs. Would this be allowed, or would it > > count as sharing my code? > > -- > 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]<google-code%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://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.
