In Ten numbers on a blackboard, someone asks about the largest number you can compute by reducing a set of numbers. I was surprised to see that someone spent quite a bit of time to brute force it and that their Python solution was so slow. So many of the things I write about in the “Benchmarking” and “Profiling” chapters come into play in this conversation. Continue reading “Ten numbers on a blackboard”
Category: Profiling
New to “Profiling”
Devel::NYTProf, Adam Kaplan’s original creation and Tim Bunce’s ongoing gift to the Perl community, is the new star of my “Profiling” chapter. However, the static book format doesn’t do much to show it off.
Other than that, I went through all of the code and output with v5.18 to refresh it. Not much changed other than the times getting much faster almost a decade later.
You can read this chapter in O’Reilly Atlas.