Re^2: My Binary Search Perl code takes forever

Did you try one query (2seconds) or ~500 queries. For about ~500 queries, it takes about 5-7 minuetes. I think this is way too slow. Because, I need to make about 100,000 queries, which takes 1000 minutes (16 hours)....

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Re^3: My Binary Search Perl code takes forever by Anonymous Monk on Dec 15, 2007 at 16:29 UTC
"One thing I noticed is that you pass in the array by reference (good idea), but the first thing you do is copy it entirely into a local variable. Why not keep accessing it by reference, like this: (I changed some other things around too)" Wow! I keep accessing it by reference, it runs in no time. Fantastic. Thanks a lot.	[reply]


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