Timeline for Matching a generated string of random letters to an input
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| Nov 6, 2014 at 19:55 | history | edited | Jamal | CC BY-SA 3.0 | edited tags; edited title |
| May 26, 2014 at 16:03 | answer | added | Veedrac | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 5, 2014 at 23:36 | history | edited | Jamal | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 9 characters in body; edited tags |
| Feb 27, 2014 at 4:41 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackCodeReview/status/438896659159076864 | ||
| Feb 27, 2014 at 3:06 | comment | added | Russell Borogove | You say "I wrote it on C#, because it's compiled"; Python is also normally compiled. | |
| Feb 26, 2014 at 16:12 | comment | added | Eric Lippert | @agentnega: You see what you're doing there, right? You are guessing. Your guesses are good, educated guesses that are probably right, but they are still guesses. For all we know the reason that the C# program is slow is because there's something wrong with the Console.WriteLine causing the output to block or some such thing. I have profiled a lot of C# programs in my day and very frequently -- well over 10% of the time -- my initial guess about the cause of a slowdown is utterly wrong. Engineers solve problems by reasoning about facts, not guesses. | |
| Feb 26, 2014 at 15:57 | comment | added | agentnega | @EricLippert, sage advice, certainly -- but in this particular case would profiling actually help? He'd see that all the time is spent in generate() and count() and that neither is unusually slow -- but that is not illuminating, it's precisely what we would expect to see if it was operating properly. Without understanding the consequences of repeated Random creation, the specific logical reason for why the program is so slow is elusive. | |
| Feb 26, 2014 at 11:31 | answer | added | Graeme Bradbury | timeline score: 20 | |
| Feb 26, 2014 at 7:13 | comment | added | Eric Lippert | Use a profiler to answer a performance question. Anything else is guessing. | |
| Feb 25, 2014 at 23:39 | answer | added | Jesse C. Slicer | timeline score: 8 | |
| Feb 25, 2014 at 22:50 | comment | added | scotru | You may find this question on StackOverflow useful as well as it discusses pros and cons of instantiating a StringBuilder object: stackoverflow.com/questions/550702/… | |
| Feb 25, 2014 at 20:08 | vote | accept | bobpal | ||
| Feb 25, 2014 at 20:07 | vote | accept | bobpal | ||
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| Feb 25, 2014 at 20:02 | vote | accept | bobpal | ||
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| Feb 25, 2014 at 18:47 | answer | added | vals | timeline score: 50 | |
| Feb 25, 2014 at 18:45 | comment | added | rolfl | I guess I had better get back to typing up some Macbeth! | |
| Feb 25, 2014 at 18:41 | answer | added | Mathieu Guindon | timeline score: 20 | |
| Feb 25, 2014 at 18:36 | answer | added | Uri Agassi | timeline score: 9 | |
| Feb 25, 2014 at 18:27 | review | First posts | |||
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| Feb 25, 2014 at 18:08 | history | asked | bobpal | CC BY-SA 3.0 |