Hahaah! I am no Java master. I am a Java GURO.
BTW, I still prefer that these UP students use Linux - with Java or C/
C++. :)
On Aug 8, 2007, at 11:17 AM, Mhac Janapin wrote:
Congratulations Doc P. Mana for such ingenious design of your
class! You are a true educator. Hiding one's biases and keeping the
sense of objectivity in class is an art form only a true educator
can master. :-) *tips off hat*
Now, the problem Doc Mana gave was for his CS135. They are not in
the league of J.M.Ibanez :-) nor the java master Rom Feria,
himself. ;-P With that in mind, the most obvious choice was to use
Linux. And knowing the students' psyche of going to the path of
least resistance, it sure lead them to use Linux.
Cheers!
On 8/8/07, Rom Feria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Curious - how big an array are you expecting? Is it greater than 2
billion entries? If it spits out OutOfMemory error, then you may need
to allocate more resource to the JVM - compile as server, add more
memory to heap, etc.
Anyhow, you can also implement it using other ways on Java. :D
On Aug 8, 2007, at 10:17 AM, Pablo Manalastas wrote:
> For my CS135 class at U.P., I gave a programming
> assignment to compare the performance of quicksort,
> heapsort, mergesort, and radixsort, on arrays of
> strings. Each string is of fixed size 16 characters,
> and the sort must be done on arrays of sizes 100000,
> 200000, 300000, ... , 900000, 1000000. The students
> are free to choose the operating system, and the
> programming language. I showed the class that the
> programming assignment can be done with Debian on 1GB
> ram, using Gnu C, by giving the class a demo of
> quicksort of the array of one million 16-character
> strings.
>
> Among the problems that my students encountered and
> reported to me are the following:
>
> 1. You can not do the programming assignment on
> Windows, since the Windows development environment can
> not support such big arrays.
>
> 2. You can not do the programming assignment using
> Java on Linux, since Java-for-Linux does not support
> such big arrays.
>
> So the students are forced to use Linux, using C, C++
> or any tool that allows management of large arrays.
> Unconsciously, I gave a programming assignment that
> promoted the use of Linux, and extolled the virtues of
> Linux, without making the advertisement so obvious.
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