<div dir="ltr">Sorry "sleep(5);", obviously.<div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Richard Dice <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rdice@pobox.com" target="_blank">rdice@pobox.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">They took out the "wait(5);" statement they put in when they originally wrote the code, which was originally placed inside of a "foreach" loop so that one day they could remove it, speed up performance by 3 orders of magnitude, and then look like a genius to their boss and justify all of the "code optimization" (i.e. reading blogs) they've been doing for the past 18 months.<div>

<br></div><div>Or am I the only one who does this?</div><div><br></div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 12:06 PM,  <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arocker@vex.net" target="_blank">arocker@vex.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>

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<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/11/top_coder_trumpets_competition_results/" target="_blank">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/11/top_coder_trumpets_competition_results/</a><br>
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A lot of computational biology is.<br>
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It would be interesting to know what they did to achieve 3 orders of<br>
magnitude speedup. (A non-trivial achievement.)<br>
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