josh, here is the golden rule:

       if your professor considers it cheating, don't do it here.

       if your professor doesn't consider it cheating, do it here.

that's all i ask.  use common sense.  if you have no idea, then ask your
professor if it's ok.

nicole, your a cs grad, right?  do you have any words of wisdom for us?

pete



begin: Joshua Poppe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quote
> What if someone asks for some specific bug in their code to be fixed.  For
> example lets say someone is writing an overloaded< operator.  Would it be
> okay to make a suggestion of code change if it is just syntax.  (i.e.: they
> are missing a const or don't need the & before operator).
> 
> Thanks for the clarification,
> Josh
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Jay Salzman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 12:12 AM
> Subject: Re: [vox-tech] can you run it faster for my 110 program?
> 
> 
> > hate to be a poopy, but i just wanted to comment that there's a delicate
> > balance between help and unfair help.
> >
> > this was ok; but we have a lot of new users on vox who have joined in the
> > past 2 weeks.  i wanted to point out to them that if you want help with
> > homework, use common sense:
> >
> > 1. clearly identify the request for help as being school related
> > 2. no collaborative effort on code
> > 3. vague terms and concepts are ok.  concrete code is not.
> >
> > this is for lugod's safety, as well as the poster's.
> >
> > again, this was absolutely fine; it just seemed like a good opportunity
> > to state vox's position on homework help for the new users.
> >
> > pete
> >
> >
> >
> > begin: Chan Yan Huang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quote
> > > it is due now and thanx you guys , basically you guys suggest me not use
> > > heap, so i change it
> > > to a 2-dimension array which use stack, but the running time is just
> faster
> > > very very little. it is due
> > > now .  thanx for help anyway,
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of -/\/\/\- (Mister
> > > Resistor)
> > > Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 10:56 PM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Re: [vox-tech] can you run it faster for my 110 program?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Your performance penalty is probably coming from the fact that you're
> > > allocating data on the heap within a loop that you want to execute fast.
> > > You should also avoid the stream I/O in the loop. That's another
> > > performance penalty.  What is the source of the data?
> > >
> > > Try a different strategy.  I.e, read all the input into some sort of
> > > buffer, then efficiently compute in one fell-swoop your memory
> > > requirements and allocate it all at once.  Then, construct your data
> > > structures within the allocated memory region, and avoid the use of the
> > > 'new' operator if you can help it... This should speed things up a
> little.
> > >
> > > I don't know the context in which this code is executing, otherwise I
> > > could help you further.  Feel free to e-mail.  When's the deadline?
> > > Looking at "weights and vertexes", I am thinking you're trying to tackle
> > > some graph algorithm problem of sorts.
> > >
> > > What's the target platform?  We can optimize this right down to the
> lowest
> > > level, after, of course, we optimize your algorithms too.
> > >
> > > First things first - save your current work, so you have a fall back if
> > > your optimization efforts fail.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Pavan Tumati ([EMAIL PROTECTED])   http://www.students.uiuc.edu/~tumati
> > > Computer Engineering Student     University of Illinois @
> Urbana-Champaign
> > >
> > > Intel VP David House, In _EE_Times_, 16 October 1989: "Bill Gates says
> > > no matter how much more power we can supply, he'll develop some really
> > > exciting software that will bring the machine to its knees."
> > >
> > > On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Chan Yan Huang wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > this part running painfully slow.  its correct but if i handin this i
> will
> > > > lose all the pts in cpu speed contest
> > > > that's about 30 % of program of my grade.  open for suggestion it is
> > > > basically initialize a double pointer to
> > > > take input.  but it is tooo ooo  slow , my instructor sean give zero
> for
> > > > that.  and i can't think any improvement
> > > > .  help man !!!!!!
> > > >
> > > > istream & operator>> (istream &in, Grid &grid)
> > > > {
> > > >  int x,edgesNum;
> > > >
> > > >  int i = 0 ;
> > > >  while (in >> x)
> > > >  {
> > > >     in >> edgesNum; //the number of edges 1-5
> > > >     grid.Vertices[x]->EdgeSize = edgesNum;
> > > >     (grid.Vertices[x])->edges = new Edge *[edgesNum];   //2 nd edges
> is
> > > >     while ( i<edgesNum)
> > > >     {
> > > >       grid.Vertices[x]->edges[i] = new Edge();
> > > >       in >> grid.Vertices[x]->edges[i]->ToVertax;
> > > >       in >> grid.Vertices[x]->edges[i]->Weight;
> > > >       grid.Vertices[x]->edges[i]->FromVertax = x;
> > > >       i++;
> > > >     }
> > > >
> > > >     i = 0;
> > > >  //might need a getline to go to next line for input
> > > >  }
> > > >   return in;
> > > > } // operator>>
> > > >
> > >
> >
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