Agreed, speed isn't the primary concern of the challenge. Two reasons I'm looking specifically at this end of things though:
1) Most of the existing teams are now down to blending results, requiring multiple usage of algorithms before the final blend is performed. In the interests of keeping this process fairly sane, storing and retrieving the data efficiently seems logical given it will be accessed repeatedly.
2) Trying to follow what I perceive to be some form of good practice. No point writing code based around one data access method and then discovering I've got to re-write half of it just because I've changed how the data is stored.
-
Are you posting in the right place? Check out Where do I post X? to know for sure.
-
Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags. Currently these include the following:
<code> <a> <b> <big>
<blockquote> <br /> <dd>
<dl> <dt> <em> <font>
<h1> <h2> <h3> <h4>
<h5> <h6> <hr /> <i>
<li> <nbsp> <ol> <p>
<small> <strike> <strong>
<sub> <sup> <table>
<td> <th> <tr> <tt>
<u> <ul>
-
Snippets of code should be wrapped in
<code> tags not
<pre> tags. In fact, <pre>
tags should generally be avoided. If they must
be used, extreme care should be
taken to ensure that their contents do not
have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent
horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor
intervention).
-
Want more info? How to link
or How to display code and escape characters
are good places to start.
|
