HarrySimons

Theory vs Practice: Making algorithms claimed 'optimal', 10x faster.

Posted by HarrySimons on Sunday July 11, 2010 @02:34AM
from the cacm.acm.org dept.

http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2010/7/95061-youre-doing-it-wrong/fulltext

"Would you believe me if I claimed that an algorithm that has been on the books as "optimal" for 46 years, which has been analyzed in excruciating detail by geniuses like Knuth and taught in all computer science courses in the world, can be optimized to run 10 times faster?"

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Re:I don't like Python. Does that make me a bad person? on Saturday June 26, 2010 @06:40AM (#1463451)

I hate Python too, only because of its insistence on indentation and because of its verboseness relative to, say, Perl.

I'm not against the non-Perl philosophy of There Is Only One Way To Do It, but for God's sake, don't insist on indentation! I am under a personal vow that until Python lifts its indentation requirement (say, via a command-line switch), I'm no way using this language for my programming needs.