[challenge] Hamming numbers

Don nospam at nospam.com
Fri Sep 3 13:28:32 PDT 2010


bearophile wrote:
> Don:
>> That's not a very useful problem, because the timing depends entirely on 
>> BigInt, which is completely unoptimised for small values.
> 
> You are usually right, but this time what you say is useless. There are other means to judge how good a program is, beside running time:
> - Total line count of the program;
> - Max amount of memory used.

Well, I would hate for somebody to waste their time trying to optimise 
that problem either for speed or memory consumption, when both are 
limited by a fairly simple, short-term library issue.

Lines of code, sure.


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