fergal,
As far as I can tell my Perl is faster than your C. So (for a sanity check) if you run blokhead's memoized counting code on your machine (the machine that takes 72 mins for the C) how long does it take?

Ok - I will assume I am just being dense here. When you say that you suspect your Perl is faster than my C, I presume you are talking about this code. I modified it slightly as to not penalize it for IO. IOW, I made it go through the solutions without actually printing them. It has been running for 4 1/2 hours on the same machine that my C code takes 72 minutes to complete on and is still not finished.

When you ask me to run blokhead's memoized counting code on the same machine as the one that completes the C code in 72 minutes, I am not sure why you would want me to do this. I presume it will finish in 10 seconds or less since it isn't actually going through the solutions.

I am not trying to be unhelpful here but I just don't get at what you are trying to get me to test. Any code that I have tested that actually goes through the solutions (without printing them) takes so long I give up on including your code I linked to. What am I missing?

Cheers - L~R

In reply to Re^10: Challenge: Number of unique ways to reach target sum by Limbic~Region
in thread Challenge: Number of unique ways to reach target sum by Limbic~Region

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