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This problem 20 yrs ago might be worth attempting to solve. Not sure it is worth the complexity and effort. Having said that the thinking & creativity could be
by the_arun 7y ago
This problem 20 yrs ago might be worth attempting to solve. Not sure it is worth the complexity and effort. Having said that the thinking & creativity could be reused. Not sure it is a complexity that we solve every day.
- ohlookabird 7y agoBut there are for instance modern embedded systems which might be very resource constrained and knowledge like this would be useful there.
- cfallin 7y agoCompact / succinct data structures and clever algorithms are still very important when data gets large enough -- consider e.g. a database running complex queries, where a good encoding makes the difference between staying in memory and going to disk. Basically the machines became larger but so have the problems to solve.
- Dylan16807 7y agoYes but this is far beyond compact, it's squeezing in so close to the edge of what fits that the performance inevitably drops off a cliff.