adaptive

Is it practical to include an adaptive or optimizing memory strategy into a library?

I have a library that does I/O. There are a couple of external knobs for tuning the sizes of the memory buffers used internally. When I ran some tests I found that the sizes of the buffers can affect performance significantly. But the optimum size seems to depend on a bunch of things - the available memory on the PC, the the size of t...

PHP example for PayPal Adaptive Payments ConvertCurrency API

Trying to wrap my head around the new PayPal Adaptive Payments API - specifically the ConvertCurrency functionality. Has anyone had any luck with this in PHP? Documentation: https://www.x.com/docs/DOC-1400 ...

[Adaptive Interfaces] Why aren't they around that much?

I'm currently doing research on adaptive interfaces and i'd like to hear some responses from fellow Web Developers on this subject. We used to have static interfaces back in the day, where you couldn't change a thing and you had to learn the system the way it was build. After that came adaptable interfaces, where you could change some p...

Is adaptive streaming (live http streaming) required of iphone apps that play video?

We are creating a video intensive app and want to be sure that adaptive streaming is required (given that we need to write an automated transcoding and segmentation system to support this). Does anyone know if the YouTube app is using adaptive streaming? ...

Does anyone have Adaptive Huffman compression for C#?

Does anyone see this kind of source code over the Internet? I have tried Google, it seems no where having this. Is Adaptive Huffman encoder good? Or Anyone can share with me about the source code (C#) for it? Thanks ...

Using Paypal Adaptive Payments API like Kickstarter uses Amazon Payments?

I'm wondering if it's possible to use Paypal Adaptive Payments in the way that Kickstarter.com are using Amazon Payments to collect/fundraise. For example: A user sets up a project. People pledge $5 to that project, and if it meets a goal, the system then automatically extracts the money from everyone, and puts it into user who created ...

Question about using adaptive layout + print style sheet

Hey everyone, In my web design class, we looked at creating different style sheets for different window sizes and using a javascript that detects the window size and loads the right style sheet. In the head, I'm linking to three external style sheets, as well as a link to the javascript file. So the adaptive layout works fine. However....

Adaptive Maps in Scala (or Java) Preserving Insertion Order

I would like to find and reuse (if possible) a map implementation which has the following attributes: While the number of entries is small, say < 32, underlying storage should be done in an array like this [key0, val0, key1, val1, ...] This storage scheme avoids many small Entry objects and provides for extremely fast look ups (even th...