On 6/21/2011 3:48 PM, John Salerno wrote:
Absolutely not! Each problem has been designed according to a "one- minute rule", which means that although it may take several hours to design a successful algorithm with more difficult problems, an efficient implementation will allow a solution to be obtained on a modestly powered computer in less than one minute."
That statement is for C, not Python. Python is efficient with human time, but not machine time. If something really takes a minute in C, allow yourself at least 10 minutes or even more with plain CPython.
-- Terry Jan Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
