[Purdue-pm] Missed Presentation
Rick Westerman
westerman at purdue.edu
Wed Apr 11 08:04:12 PDT 2007
David Jacoby wrote:
> I certainly hope that you guys aren't still waiting for me.
>
We aren't. The meeting, as usual, was lightly attended (6 of us) but
very informative.
> Sorry I couldn't make it. I had a talk on programming ...
Since you have so many talks in store, we decided to make the next
the technical meeting an "all Dave all the time" meeting. :-)
Actually I will probably continue exploring the Higher Order Perl (HOP)
book since I was only able to present the first 5 chapters last night.
What I did present is now on-line at the Mongers web site.
Mark's "unneeded complexity" talked segued nicely into my HOP talk
-- we both touched on the idea of table-driven programming.
The 54,000% faster lightning talk of Mark's was about using multiple
simple regex's or-ed together instead of a single complex regex.
Personally I can't replicate his results but then I don't have his code
in front of me. He also may have been using an unneeded capture in his
complex regex.
Greg's talk about BioPerl slowing down his program was
interesting. It is hard to compare his BioPerl-based program to his
non-BioPerl-based program since they are slightly different (although
reading the same type of data files.) Personally I'm not very fond of
BioPerl since it seems to be a large cumbersome beast. Phillip likes it
though. It would be interesting to do an exact side-by-side comparison
but I don't see anyone doing this in the near future.
Unfortunately I was late and missed Doug's talk on logging.
--
Rick Westerman
westerman at purdue.edu
Bioinformatics specialist at the Genomics Facility.
Phone: (765) 494-0505 FAX: (765) 496-7255
Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture
625 Agriculture Mall Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2010
Physically located in room S049, WSLR building
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