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From: fred@brl-smoke.ARPA (Fred Bunn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Poor Algorithms (was Re: First Languages (yet again) )
Message-ID: <7344@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 25 Feb 88 13:46:23 GMT
References: <4022@ames.arpa> <170500013@uiucdcsb> <1010@cos.COM>
Reply-To: fred@brl.arpa (Fred Bunn (TANK) <fred>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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My major production program took about 10 hours to run on a mid-size
computer. We recently did some timing runs to see
where it spent it's time; after several days of judicious changes
to about 150 lines of code, we managed to cut the run time to 1.8 hours.

Since we run the program reasonable frequently and it is used at a half
dozen other sites, we will be saving a good deal of resources. More importantly
for my friends and neighbors, I'm not hogging cycles.

Fred Bunn
Ballistic Research Lab