> I understand the point on scaled up iterations. Your previous comment
> makes me think the stack size is important.  If it builds 
> to size O(n), the copying may introduce a factor of O(n^2).

Yes, if the stack size is O(n) then the time for the stack
manipulation would be important.  I would definitely
consider O(n^2) not scaling up well, for n > moderately large.



----- Original Message -----
From: John Randall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, November 20, 2008 16:46
Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Project Euler Problem 216
To: Programming forum <[email protected]>

> Roger Hui wrote:
> > In this case front vs. back makes no difference because
> > append-in-place does not support boxed arrays.
> > Otherwise I would agree with you:  making the
> > end of the array the top of the stack would
> > be the way to go.
> >
> I guess I knew boxed arrays were not supported, but forgot it 
> when it
> counted.
> 
> > As for scaling up, a stack size of 120 should not matter.
> > 2e5 iterations should scale up too, if 2e5 iterations taking
> > 2e5 times as long as 1 iteration is considered to be
> > scaling up well.
> >
> 
> I understand the point on scaled up iterations. Your previous comment
> makes me think the stack size is important.  If it builds 
> to size O(n),
> the copying may introduce a factor of O(n^2).
> 
> By the way, I solved my premature promotion of integers problem: 
> I thought
> I was running J64 when I was running J32.


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