-- and algorithms are the
dominant factor in the performance equation.
Simon
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| Gordon
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| Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] the case of the 100-fold program
On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Seth Gordon wrote:
It took me a week to figure out the right algorithm for combining these
two procedures and write some almost-working code that implemented it.
It took a co-worker of mine another few days to find the bugs that had
eluded me.
Were these bugs of the
As Lily Tomlin would say, neVERmind.
Simon P-J asked me, in email, whether the deforestation was the thing
that actually made the program faster or whether it was just the thing
that made me think about how to solve the problem. I realized that my
fast program had *another* difference from the
One of Alan Perlis's Epigrams in Programming is A language that
doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth
knowing. I recently had an experience that demonstrated this principle.
I had to write some code that took a polygon (encoded in WKT, a standard
format for geographic
