[tpm] I wonder if this was Perl?

[Tom Legrady]

/me kneels at the feet of the master.

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Richard Dice <rdice at pobox.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> Or am I the only one who does this?
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 12:06 PM, <arocker at vex.net> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/11/top_coder_trumpets_competition_results/
>>
>> A lot of computational biology is.
>>
>> It would be interesting to know what they did to achieve 3 orders of
>> magnitude speedup. (A non-trivial achievement.)
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