efficiency

MVC and repository pattern data efficiency

My project is structured as follows: DAL public IQueryable<Post> GetPosts() { var posts = from p in context.Post select p; return posts; } Service public IList<Post> GetPosts() { var posts = repository.GetPosts().ToList(); return posts; } //Returns a list of the latest feeds, restricted by the coun...

How do you energize yourself when working alone on a project?

I am working in an environment with a very small team (3 developers only) and each of us have been assigned a different project, without counting support tasks. I know this is a bad business practice and that we should all work on a single project at a time, and then move on to the next one (Already explained to the management on how muc...

More efficient way of updating UI from Service than intents?

I currently have a Service in Android that is a sample VOIP client so it listens out for SIP messages and if it recieves one it starts up an Activity screen with UI components. Then the following SIP messages determine what the Activity is to display on the screen. For example if its an incoming call it will display Answer or Reject or ...

Building an *efficient* if/then interface for non-technical users to build flow-control in PHP

I am currently building an internal tool to be used by our management to control the flow of traffic. I have built an if/then interface allowing the user to set conditions for certain outcomes, however it is inefficient to use the switch statement to control the flow. How can I improve the efficiency of my code? Example of code: ...

What's wrong with my logic here?

In java they say don't concatenate Strings, instead you should make a stringbuffer and keep adding to that and then when you're all done, use toString() to get a String object out of it. Here's what I don't get. They say do this for performance reasons, because concatenating strings makes lots of temporary objects. But if the goal was pe...

How do I improve the efficiency of the queries executed by this generic Linq-to-SQL data access class?

Hi all, I have a class which provides generic access to LINQ to SQL entities, for example: class LinqProvider<T> //where T is a L2S entity class { DataContext context; public virtual IEnumerable<T> GetAll() { return context.GetTable<T>(); } public virtual T Single(Func<T, bool> condition) { ret...

Remove an element from an xml File using jdom

I have a 300 KB xml file with 70 elements in it. I need to be efficient upon removing one of the root's elements. What is the best approach? Should I detach the element in memory, save it and overwrite it by moving it? Is there a better option? I like org.jdom but any improvement is welcome ...

Should I Make These Vectors Classes or Structs in C#

I am creating a geometry library in C# and I will need the following immutable types: Vector2f (2 floats - 8 bytes) Vector2d (2 doubles - 16 bytes) Vector3f (3 floats - 12 bytes) Vector3d (3 doubles - 24 bytes) Vector4f (4 floats - 16 bytes) Vector4d (4 doubles - 32 bytes) I am trying to determine whether to make them structs or clas...

efficiently trimming postgresql tables

I have about 10 tables with over 2 million records and one with 30 million. I would like to efficiently remove older data from each of these tables. My general algorithm is: create a temp table for each large table and populate it with newer data truncate the original tables copy tmp data back to original tables using: "insert into o...

C# Sorting Question

I wonder what is the best C# data structure I should use to sort efficiently? Is it List or Array or what? And why the standard array [] does not implement sort method in it? Thanks ...

Please help me convert this C# 2.0 snippet to Linq.

This is not a homework ;) I need to both A) optimize the following code (between a TODO and a ~TODO) and B) convert it to [P]Linq. Better readability is desired. It might make sense to provide answers to A) and B) separately. Thanks! lock (Status.LockObj) { // TODO: find a better way to merge these dictionaries foreach (KeyValue...

Is possible to reuse subqueries?

Hello, I'm having some problems trying to perform a query. I have two tables, one with elements information, and another one with records related with the elements of the first table. The idea is to get in the same row the element information plus several records information. Structure could be explain like this: table [ id, name ] [...

Efficiency of manually written loops vs operator overloads (C++)

Hi all, in the program I'm working on I have 3-element arrays, which I use as mathematical vectors for all intents and purposes. Through the course of writing my code, I was tempted to just roll my own Vector class with simple +, -, *, /, etc overloads so I can simplify statements like: for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++) r[i] = r1[i] - r...

MySQL efficiency as it relates to the database/table size

I'm building a system using django, Sphinx and MySQL that's very quickly becoming quite large. The database currently has about 2000 rows, and I've written a program that's going to populate it with another 40,000 rows in a couple days. Since the database is live right now, and since I've never had a database with this much information i...

Design Practice Retrieve Multiple Users - PHP

Greetings all, I'm looking for a more efficient way to grab multiple users without too much code redundancy. I have a Users class, (here's a highly condensed representation) Class Users { function __construct() { ... ... } public static function getNew($id) { // This is all only example code $sql = "SEL...

Which is better a switch statement or if-else if-else statement?

Possible Duplicates: is else if faster than switch() case ? What is the relative performance difference of if/else versus switch statement in Java? I am just wondering if one is better (i.e. more efficient). To me the seem to be the same other than the syntax. ...

C++: Is windows.h generally an efficient code library?

I heard some people complaining about including the windows header file in a C++ application and using it. They mentioned that it is inefficient. Is this just some urban legend or are there really some real hard facts behind it? In other words, if you believe it is efficient or inefficient please explain how this can be with facts. I a...

C++ struct sorting

I have a vector of custom Struct that needs to be sorted on different criteria each time Implementing operator < will allow only one criteria But I want to be able to specify sorting criteria each time I call C++ standard sort. How to do that? Please note it is better to be efficient in running time.. Thanks ...

Most efficient way for a lookup/search in a huge list (python)

Hey guys, -- I just parsed a big file and I created a list containing 42.000 strings/words. I want to query [against this list] to check if a given word/string belongs to it. So my question is: What is the most efficient way for such a lookup? A first approach is to sort the list [list.sort()] and then just use the >> if word in list: ...

How to pass a file (read from Java) most effectively to a native method?

Hi, I have approx. 30000 files (1MB each) which I want to put into a native method, which requires just an byte array and the size of it as arguments. I looked through some examples and benchmarks (like http://nadeausoftware.com/articles/2008/02/java_tip_how_read_files_quickly) but all of them do some other fancy things. Basically I d...