for google servers, all algorithms are O(1)

2010/4/17 Jacob Lyles <jacob.ly...@gmail.com>

> I'm not sure what the rules are, but software is usually far more important
> than hardware when it comes to algorithm running times:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis_of_algorithms#Run-time_analysis
>
> There are some cases where an efficient algorithm will run in a few seconds
> on a standard laptop, but the brute force approach will take many
> centuries.
>
> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 10:29 AM, tonka <ritwik_da...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> is there any rule that says that one cannot use a mainframe computer
>> to run the code? because in those computers you can use the code
>> written for small dataset (which generally uses brute force) for large
>> dataset and get outputs instantly?
>>
>> On Apr 16, 1:28 pm, Narasimha Datta <nda...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > long int is 32 bits only on a 32-bit system; it is 64 bits on a 64-bit
>> > system.
>> >
>> > - ND
>> >
>> > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 1:39 AM, Felipe Sodré Silva <fso...@gmail.com
>> >wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > > If you are using C/C++, long int is supposed to be 32-bit. If you want
>> > > 64-bit integer, you must use long long int.
>> >
>> > > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:00 AM, tonka <ritwik_da...@yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > >> i was working with the large input data but then i found out that the
>> > >> long int datatype allocates 4 bytes of memory whereas it is supposed
>> > >> to be 64 bits. i am using vista 32-bit OS. in case i want to use 64-
>> > >> bit integers then what OS and compiler should i use? otherwise is
>> > >> there a way to allocate memory according to the desired size for
>> > >> integer data, something like if i want to allocate 10 bytes of memory
>> > >> for an integer then what should be the code?
>> > >> thanks in advance.
>> > >> tonka.
>> >
>> > >> On Apr 15, 4:45 pm, kirk79 <kir...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > >> > Very true.  I have tried many problems that work on small but fail
>> on
>> > >> > large, and when I replace all 32 bit integers with 64 bit integers
>> the
>> > >> > large file works.
>> >
>> > >> > I now try to use long (64 bit integers) whenever there is a chance
>> > >> > that they will be required.
>> >
>> > >> > On Apr 15, 9:39 pm, Nitin Kumar <nitinkumar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
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