in reply to Re: Catching Cheaters and Saving Memory
in thread Catching Cheaters and Saving Memory

Update: Link corrected. Thanks to OverlordQ.

What do you think to a single perl script, ~20 hours and no additional storage requirements on commodity hardware?


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Re^3: Catching Cheaters and Saving Memory
by OverlordQ (Hermit) on Oct 13, 2006 at 13:41 UTC
    Did you mean to link to here instead?
Re^3: Catching Cheaters and Saving Memory
by tilly (Archbishop) on Oct 13, 2006 at 14:58 UTC
    I'd say that you're absolutely right to reframe the problem. And I'd like to think that I'd have thought of that if my wife hadn't been telling me to wrap up and get to bed. :-)

    In fact I was already on track for doing that in my comment about filtering the data set before sorting it. You just moved the filtering earlier...