I'm making a speed game in VB.Net (Console Application) and users have a certain time to press a certain key. So how can I give the Console.ReadKey function a timeout without just waiting until a key was pressed? ...
Is it possible to see Eclipse compilation details logs? After a number of project changes, the compilation speed became very low (~10 seconds after a simple file change). Whould be nice to see, what compilation steps take most time. ...
I work at a company with hundreds of people writing software for essentially the same product. The quality of the software has to be high because so many people depend on it (not least the developers themselves). Because of this every major issue has resulted in a new check - either automated or manual. As a result the process of deli...
I just saw the first git tutorial at http://blip.tv/play/Aeu2CAI How does git store all the versions of all the files and still be more economical in space than subversion which saves only the latest version of the code? I know this can be done using compression but that would be at the cost of speed, but this also says that git is muc...
I have a dataset whose columns look like this: Consumer ID | Product ID | Time Period | Product Score 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 and so on. As part of a program (written in C) I need to process the product scores given by all consumers for a particular product and time period...
I'm conflicted between a "read once, use memory+pointers to files" and a "read when necessary" approach. The latter is of course much easier (no additional classes needed to store the whole dir structure), but IMO it is slower? I'm trying to list the filenames and relative paths (so the compiler can do with them what it needs to). A lit...
When I change any .java file and build, the compilation takes 16 seconds. I don't understand why it should be so slow!? I enabled verbose output for Andoroid. Window > Preferences > Android > Build output > Verbose. The result output (Console > Android) is: [19:46:10] Refreshing resource folders. [19:46:10] Starting incremental Pre ...
In C language, Why does n++ execute faster than n=n+1? (int n=...; n++;) (int n=...; n=n+1;) Our instructor asked that question in today's class. (this is not homework) ...
I'm writing both client and server code using WCF, where I need to know the "perceived" bandwidth of traffic between the client and server. I could use ping statistics to gather this information separately, but I wonder if there is a way to configure the channel stack in WCF so that the same statistics can be gathered simultaneously whi...
Hi, which structure returns faster result and/or less taxing on the host server, flat file or database (mysql)? Assume many users (100 users) are simultaneously query the file/db. Searches involve pattern matching against a static file/db. File has 50,000 unique lines (same data type). There could be many matches. There is no writing to...
And how can the process be speeded up from a developer point of view? ...
Right now I have a very high volume of requests coming to my webserver which execute a PHP CGI script. Every one of these scripts opens up a config file that I have created to load options of how the script should run. Doing a file I/O operation everytime a request comes in seems very resource intensive to me. I'm not too familiar with...
I just started using the chrome developer tools for some basic html websites and I used the audit tool. I had two identical images, one with the height and width attribute, and one without. On the Resources section, both the latency and the download time were identical. However, the Audit showed Specify image dimensions (1) A width an...
Hi, in a simple drawing application I have a model which has a NSMutableArray curvedPaths holding all the lines the user has drawn. A line itself is also a NSMutableArray, containing the point objects. As I draw curved NSBezier paths, my point array has the following structure: linePoint, controlPoint, controlPoint, linePoint, controlPo...
Until now, I have always said that CakePHP is too bloated and slow. I don't really know that, I just saw "some" benchmarks. What I really want to know, is that if those two frameworks (Symfony and CakePHP) are too slow to be usable in a way that the user will get frustrated. I already know that those frameworks are slower than other alte...
I've been doing a few of the challenges on the Sphere Online Judge, but I can't seem to get the second problem (the prime generator) to run within the time limit. Does anyone have any tips for increasing the speed of the following code? #include <stdio.h> #include <math.h> int is_prime(int n); void make_sieve(); void fast_prime(int n);...
Hi! I made some tests of speed to compare MongoDB and CouchDB. Only inserts were while testing. I got MongoDB 15x faster than CouchDB. I know that it is because of sockets vs http. But, it is very interesting for me how can I optimize inserts in CouchDB? Test platform: Windows XP SP3 32 bit. I used last versions of MongoDB, MongoDB C# ...
I have zlib and Zend Optimizer enabled on my server. I have read about the zlib.output_compression directive. Are there any caveats with turning this directive on in my server? ...
I have a function that is doing memcpy, but it's taking up an enormous amount of cycles. Is there a faster alternative/approach than using memcpy to move a piece of memory? ...
In my web application I would like to complately avoid html and use only javascript to create web-page's dom tree. What is faster writing web content in the traditional way in html <div>Some text</div> or using javascript dom render, like this: div.appendChild(document.createTextNode("Some text"));? ...