Yeah, there is a point here... when I was participating on ICPC, I remember a situation involving two places running the same contest where solutions O(Nlog(N)) works on just one of them. But there where a solution O(N) that works for the two places.
I'm saying that of course there is a difference between using a 286 or a quad core, and it is very important when you try to solve a problem that has a solution close to the time limit, but the people that they are trying to select are the 500 top (or 20) and they expect that those guys (or girls) can solve the problems on any computer just by using the (probably) best algorithm. Pay attention that I'm not saying that it isn't unfair that someone else get the next stage just because of his hardware, but, be sure that he will not get the finals because of it. Also, think about it: We have solutions in Java, LOLcode and lots of languages, and we know that running a virtual machine to solve the problem or a interpreter is a waste of time btw we have this solutions! And they run whit no big problems. right? Again, I'm not trying to start a flame war of languages, just saying that the time by interpreting or running a VM isn't that important. congrats for the people that solved the problems on a 286 with a interpreted language. :D Is there someone using a Agent-Oriented language? 2010/5/11 Muntasir Khan <[email protected]> > On 11/05/2010, retseta <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't agree, on large file type computer(his speed) very important, > > i solved the problem on 8 min 5 seconds if my PC be faster, i resolved > > problem in time > > > > -- > > The highest amount of time any of my solutions took was ~4s in > B-large. And that too was in Python, running on rather modest hardware > (Pentium 2.66Ghz with 512MB RAM). I'm pretty sure it will take well > under 8mins even in computers several years older. If your solution > takes 8+ mins, don't blame your hardware. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "google-codejam" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<google-code%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en. > > -- grato, Gustavo Pacianotto Gouveia LTI - Laboratório de Técnicas Inteligentes Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "google-codejam" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en.
