drfugly

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by drfugly 15y ago
Because then you have to control ALL of the memory, not just the data that you're interested in optimizing. Not to mention that (at least in the JVM) the gc is pretty tweakable, and the entire team may not need to know about all of the twea
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by drfugly 15y ago
As a netbeans user but vim fanatic. I really like netbeans for project management, but vim is awesome for just manipulating text tons faster than you can with netbeans. Try the jVi plugin for netbeans to get that text editing power of vim w
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by drfugly 16y ago
Right, but there is also the cases where a nlg(n) quicksort for the most part is slower than the O(n^2) version in the real world. I wonder if current CS teaching is completely ignoring real-word performance.
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by drfugly 16y ago
Yes, that's exactly what I'm getting at. Or cases where multithreading an application may look like it's going to bring obvious performance gain only to see the overhead kill your performance.
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by drfugly 16y ago
Will do for the color scheme. What I was trying to ask was: Should real world performance be more heavily weighed? I feel like right now all the CS curriculum focuses on is O() performance as the end all.
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by drfugly 16y ago
When you were in class, where you ever even introduced to the concept that sometimes it might be possible that O() notation might not tell the whole truth? I understand that for the most part you shouldn't have to worry about it, but should
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Should CS students be graded on performance?(sbcoded.com)
22 points by drfugly 16y ago|34 comments
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by drfugly 16y ago
Isn't there xmove for this kind of stuff?
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by drfugly 16y ago
At that early age I wonder how much CS specific training is going to be given. Also with IBM's current focus on not just being a tech company anymore I would dream that the education is a bit diversified. Maybe having a specific goal to dri
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by drfugly 16y ago
Netbeans with the jVi plugin for my vim bindings is where it's at for me.