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Haskell Particle Simulation

I recently started learning Haskell and as my first project I decided to port a particle simulation I had written in C. The simulation is pretty simple. We have a cubic box with particles (spheres) ...
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Linq query performance improvements

As I am getting my Linq query to a functional point, I start looking at the query and think about all the "ANY" , and wonder if those should be a different method and then I have data conversions ...
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Performance: Devide group of numbers into two groups of which the sums are equal

I have a piece of code that devides a group of numbers into two groups of numbers of which the sums are equal. I created this because of a stackoverflow question: ...
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How to make the code more optimal?

Maybe some of you have an idea how to make the code more optimal? This had to be a little faster, because i cant pass few time tests :/ Unfortunately I can not add tests whose over time because they ...
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Selecting element from a collection based on bitwise-and result

I need to improve this section of code: uint32_t to_handle = 0; uint32_t test_const1 = Constraint3::VAL1 + Constraint3::VAL2; uint32_t test_const2 = Constraint1::VAL2 + ...
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improve this code for pattern

my aim is to design a function with arguments(int m,int n) so that output is like (for m=3,n=5) 3 34 345 34 3 i came up with this code void func(int m,int n) { for(int i=1;i<n-m+2;i++) { ...
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How can I memoize or otherwise optimize this code?

The code checks many more conditions like the one below. I was thinking to memoize it, but I can't think about how (writers block). How else could I optimize this? I know it seems silly, but my code ...
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Very fast query selector — did I miss something?

A few months ago, I wrote a query selector that seems to outperform the query selectors in the popular GP libraries by a pretty hefty margin. I'm wondering if I overlooked something; it seems odd that ...
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Speed up solution to Project Euler problem 75

I've been programming for a few months now, and have used Stack Overflow a great deal, but this is my first post. Anyway, I wrote this code for Project Euler problem 75, and was curious if anyone knew ...
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Improving the CRC code with “unsafe features”

I have the following CRC 16 code. Is it possible to improve the performance of the code with unsafe constructs. My knowledge about pointer arithmetic is rather limited. public enum Crc16Mode : ...
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Is there a better way to consume an ASP.NET Web API call in an MVC controller?

In a new project I am creating for my work I am creating a fairly large ASP.NET Web API. The api will be in a separate visual studio solution that also contains all of my business logic and database ...
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Please Review Performance Test and Idea: Initialize a widget

I want to extend an app object with a widget that initializes itself immediately. Immediately-Invoked Function Expression: var app = {}; (function() { app.widget = { init: function() { ...
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Generic wrapper for equality and hash implementation: Is there a way I can make it more efficient?

I was writing an answer in another thread and came across this challenge. I'm trying to have a generic class so that I can delegate the routine (and tiring) Equals and GetHashCode implementation to it ...
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What could I have done better with this code from a calendar?

I was writing a calendar a long time ago and, coming back to the code, I've realized that it's not the best. I was fairly mediocre at programming back then. I'm using jQuery, Mousetrap, and ...
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Optimizing unboxed array operations in Haskell

Consider this simplified code which successively permutes array elements: import Data.Word import Data.Bits import Data.Array.Unboxed import Data.Array.Base import Data.Array.ST test3 :: UArray Int ...
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General Code Review - Key Press Handler

I have made a class to import into my projects to more easily handle the state of the keyboard so I can use stuff like: if(Keys.returnKey(37)){ As opposed to setting up key listeners. Could you ...
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Miller-Rabin Prime test (Speed is the main goal)

The code below is for testing Primes. testPrime(100000); testPrime(1000000); testPrime(10000000); testPrime(100000000); Now my goal is to make the code super fast at finding prime number, min-max, ...
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Can I make my render method more efficient?

I get great FPS with this as is, but I'm a performance freak and I don't know AffineTransform or the Java graphics libraries very well. I'm sure there is something I could be doing differently to make ...
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Finding missing items in an int list

Here is a problem I am trying to solve: trying to find missing photographs from a sequence of filenames. The problem boils down to: given an unsorted list of integers, return a sorted list of missing ...
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How to make this more efficient

I have a fitness function where inputs x1 to x14 have values between 1:4. Is there a way to make to more efficient, any suggestions are useful please. I need to get the computation time down. A ...
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How to apply Sieve of Eratosthenes test into my code [closed]

I have this code that tests prime numbers and I'm trying to make it fast as possible. I know a way but I just can't find how to execute it in to my code. Does any one know how to input in to the code ...
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Return most common items in list (php)

I was wondering what's the best way to return the most common items in a list, so far the best way I could do it was: //@param string $this->matched_ids_list = 1,11,12,11,12, ...
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Primes Tester for speed performance

I was given a homework assignment in Java to create classes that find Prime number and etc (you will see in code better). My code: class Primes { public static boolean IsPrime(long num) { ...
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Responsive Left Fly out menu performance improvement

I am working on this website currently if you resize the window to less than 650px then the main menu is replaced by a button which when pressed triggers a left fly-out menu similar to the facebook ...
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Optimization: Eliminate conditional expression within common code

Background The following code (part of a natural language processor) was written to eliminate duplicate code by using isLeft as a conditional throughout the method: private void ...
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Improving performance of my python code

I wrote a python program that performs a Simpson integration of data. The program takes the areas to be integrated from a foo.ref file, with the following syntax: # peak m/z ...
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Density-based clustering of image keypoints

I have implemented the DBSCAN algorithm for clustering image keypoints, I'm using C++ and OpenCV, I have been following the pseudocode on the wiki page pretty strictly and its working but I get the ...
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Can you review my random number wrapper class

I made this class to handle any min max integer value and return a random number in the entered parameter range. I tested it to work with all combinations(I think). But is this totally wrong or ...
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Optimizing PHP script fetching entire HTML pages

The following script should get links which are stored in a text file (line by line), then put them into an array and finally scan each links' source code for a certain line. If this line is found, it ...
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BFS implementation to find connected components taking too long

This is in continuation to a question i asked here. Given the total number of nodes(employees) and the adjacency list(friendship amongst employees) I need to find all the connected components. Below ...
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Fastest way to delete a large folder using JAVA

I am trying to delete a large folders (with many levels of subfolders) over a network (i.e, on a remote machine. I have the following code and it takes 10 minutes. Is there a way to improve this, ...
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php script to retrieve enum values from sql table

I have an sql table with multiple fields and 4 of them are enums. I wrote a script that runs thought the table and retrieve the enums and put them in a 2 dimension array. Unfortunately this script is ...
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How Can I Improve my Image Preloading Script?

I wrote an infinite scrolling scrolling plugin for an app I'm developing. When requesting the second 'page' from the server, I loop through each image, and five it a very basic onload function. // I ...
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How to increase the performance of loop in Python?

I need to run over a log file with plenty of entries (25+GB) in Python to extract some log times. The snippet below works. On my test file, I'm ending up with roughly 9:30min (Python) and 4:30min ...
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how can i make this small jQuery serializeobject util any better

I have this little utility/helper which serializes a form into a javaScript object $.fn.serializeObject = function(fn) { var o = {}, a = ...
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Not sure if I missed some obvious CPU brakes

I have three functions (out of a medium 2 digit number of functions) which use up 80% of CPU time, so I kind of wonder if there are points for optimization that I am missing. Function 1, Extracting a ...
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Are these list-comprehensions written the fastest possible way?

This is a simple repeatable question regarding the usage of Python3's comprehensions: Could the Python3 syntax be used in another way to speed up the process, further so the gap between Python3 and ...
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Query Performance too Slow

Im having performance issues with this query. If I remove the status column it runs very fast but adding the subquery in the column section delays way too much the query 1.02 min. How can I modify ...
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Optimization Of Code With Runtime of 150Hours

XPost from Stackoverflow questions as Nicholas Pickering kindly referred me to this. I've been working on a project where I am importing a large document of documents and tokenizing each document. I ...
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Distance checking of normalized vectors?

I've been learning C#/XNA in an attempt to make a game for the past few weeks so maybe this is an obvious newbie thing, but here goes: I've been making a fairly simple 2D game, so I have a list of ...
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python Improve a function in a elegant way

I have a grid as >>> data = np.zeros((3, 5)) >>> data array([[ 0., 0., 0., 0., 0.], [ 0., 0., 0., 0., 0.], [ 0., 0., 0., 0., 0.]] i wrote a function in ...
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Optimize jQuery Iteration

I have a list of elements (well, nested lists of elements, really) that the user can reorder (using jQuery sortable()). A simplified view of the structure is something like: <div ...
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Remove code duplication inside of a loop preserving performance

I'm coding a 2D collision engine, and I need to merge adjacent axis-aligned bounding boxes depending on a direction (left, right, top, bottom). The four cases are very similar, except for the if ...
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How to optimize this?

This is a user Javascript for youtube, the point is to make the thumbnail bigger on mouseover, I just want some help making it better because I don't want it to waste resources with all the extensions ...
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Project RGB with Switches [closed]

I am working on project in which I need to display different colors on RGB led. I am using pwm to drive different colors on LED. My Pic is PIC24FJ64GA004 with which I am working on now. Basic concept ...
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Creating and referencing markup…cloning, etc. efficient system for this plugin

I am pulling multiple feeds from youtube that have a callback function which makes markup from each feed. They add that markup to a documentFragment stored in var data. When all the feeds have ...
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Using levenstein distance to compare strings, works but produces many false positives before real solution is found

My overall challenge and why this code was written was to compare two strings. One string being a description of a item in inventory and one string being a description of a item, but possibly ...
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JS/Jquery newbie here… Can I please get some advice on improving my code?

You can see the JS at the end of this post in action here at http://andrew-oh.com/portfolio/timeline/ (It's responsive!) I've recently picked up javascript/jquery and would love some feedback on how ...
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How to add faster object to an array

I have a list with contentlets and want all languages from every contentlet (I get these with the method languageAPI.getAllValuesByKey(key , contentList). I get a Hashmap and iterate over it. There ...
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How to make a iteration in a for loop faster

I have a list with contentlets and want all languages from every contentlet (I get these with the method languageAPI.getAllValuesByKey(key , contentList). I get a Hashmap and iterate over it. There ...

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