Performance is a subset of Optimization: performance is the goal when you want the execution time of your program or routine to be optimal.

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Josephus permutation

This problem is taken from the book Introduction to Algorithms, Third Edition By Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest and Clifford Stein: We define the Josephus problem as ...
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Shortest path navigation across a grid using Best First Search

The code below is an implementation of the Best First Search algorithm for navigation of the shortest path across a 2D NxN matrix. As a heuristic for the search I use the standard distance formula. ...
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Portably generate uniformly random floats from mt19937 output

My goal is to generate a sequence of random float from a seeded random generator. The sequence should be the same on any machine / any compiler -- this rules out ...
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Python palindrome checker

This is my palindrome-checker It is doing what it should do ...
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Loading a huge number of images in the View [on hold]

I have to just load huge number(1 million) of images in a view. My app is fetching the images from api call using background jobs but my app is getting very slower when I load the view it is taking ...
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Querying the Google ads API

I have a method which relies heavily on object supplied by third party APIs. Below is my working code, is there any scope of improvement? ...
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Copy files mentioned in an Excel sheet

Please help me in reducing the time complexity of this code as it is taking a long time to read its Excel input. ...
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Printing longest sequence of zeroes

I am doing a coding exercise in codility and I came across this question: A binary gap within a positive integer N is any maximal sequence of consecutive zeros that is surrounded by ones at both ...
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Functions to merge dictionaries with a comparison

I have several functions for merging some dictionaries but over time I created a more general function that would make all these others obsolete if it weren't slower. I have the specialized (and ...
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Permuted index generator (second version)

I have implemented a second program that produces a permuted index; here is my first solution. As advised in one of the answers, I split my program into two classes. Could anyone tell me if I did ...
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Optimizing timeline generation

I have a bunch of processes that are being executed on different virtual machines. All of those processes have a StartDate, ...
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Nondeduplicating mutual membership testing

Python sets are magical things. Mutable, deduplicating data stores with handy operator overloads for &, ...
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Recursive directory copy program

A little while ago, I had to write a little C# application to recover my HDD data (full context on this question) To answer my problem I developed a console application which job was to recursively ...
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Using Enum to Handle String literals

I have a java component that was using a lot of string literals that I need to make comparisons on and return booleans based on these comparisons. In order to make the code more robust I externalized ...
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Managing game entity data [on hold]

I am making a 3D game and I'm focused on performance. I'm making a entity class. ...
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196-Algorithm Program

Attempting to see whether using 196 as a respectively in my program will have a result or not, I made a simple function to test it. Now the 196-Algorithm requires ...
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Progressively split and map a large, line-based string

Goal I have a large string (~10MB in ~400k lines). I want to "efficiently" split it on a delimiter and map the resulting sets of lines. Efficiently is defined as something that is fast (wall time), ...
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Checking if a 3D point is outside of a trapezoid

I have recently written if a 3D point is within a specified trapezoid. It does it by checking 3 different planes of the trapezoid. I place the relevant 2 coordinates from the 3D point into the current ...
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Rotation of elements in an array

We had to write a program that would perform rotation of elements in an array. The array size was entered by user, so it had to be in a sense, dynamic. Rotation or Circular Shifting Initial Array: ...
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Optimize performance of flatten function in python

I have to flatten a large number (>300k) dicts to write them to a csv file. Example: ...
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Java web scraping robots

I am developing application that goes through 2 websites and gets all the articles, but my code is identical in most parts, is there a way to optimize this code actually :/ (TL and DN are the naming ...
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Counting primes less than n

The following code was written to be a submission to this challenge on PPCG. It uses this algorithm, the Meissal-Lehmer method. I follow the Wikipedia entry pretty naively, except I tried to memoize ...
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SICP - exercise 1.11 - tree recursion

From SICP Exercise 1.11: A function \$f\$ is defined by the rule that: \$f(n) = n\$ if \$n < 3\$, and \$f(n) = f(n-1)+2f(n-2)+3f(n-3)\$ if \$n >= 3\$. Write a procedure ...
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Generating formatted multiplication tables in C++

I am self studying C++ from Robert Lafore's OOP in C++. I am solving the first exercise questions of chapter-3 loop and decisions. I've written three different codes using different approaches. I want ...
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Extracting sleep quality scores from periodic readings

How can I optimize the next function to work faster? The function must prepare a list to put in a CSV file. The list must contain values of average percentage of sleep per minute counted from ...
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Document term matrix in Clojure

This is my very first foray into Clojure (I'm normally a Python-pushing data-type). I'm trying to create a simple term-document matrix as a vector of vectors, out of a vector of strings. For those ...
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Median filter for large mask

I'm trying to implement the fast median filter developed by T.S.Huang (HUANG, T.S. 1981. Two-Dimensional Signal Processing II: Transforms and Median Filters. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, pp. 209-211.). ...
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Update method using timer in WinForms Poker app

I have a WinForms Poker app that needs to update some stuff and im doing this by using a timer: ...
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Poker app in C#

I am developing a poker application using C#. It is almost done, and I'm looking for improvements. One of the things I wonder is whether I should change my method that checks if the player has a ...
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Python 4 Players Snake Game

I would really like to hear out some suggestions as well as general response to the code I've written for 4 players snake game. It's my first time using pygame module, as well as trying to design a ...
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1D shock tube problem written in Fortran

I have written a simple Euler solver for the 1D shock tube problem. Eventually, I plan to extend this code to solve the full 3D compressible Navier-Stokes equations. Therefore, I want to start with ...
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Fast Number Factorization in Python

Here's my implementation to factorize a positive integer: ...
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Storing disassembled data in a structured way

I want to store the information returned by the dis function of the dis module in a structured way, using a dict, associating the mnemonics of each code of a line to the correspondent line number. ...
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My spaceship is slow to explode after being hit by the asteroid

I am making a game for my computer science class. My professor's requirements are: Write a Processing program that draws a triangle in the middle of the window. Rotate the triangle when the left and ...
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Web dashboard using many REST API requests

I have created REST API in codeigniter. REST sever created in codeigniter 3.0 and REST client created codeigniter 2.x.x. I have wrote simple code for login. After login client created dashboard ...
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Concatenate three 16-bit integers in one 64-bit integer with C++

I am looking for an elegant alternative of the following code where wordXX contains always 16 bits: ...
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Beginner word-guessing game

I have the following code. Aim is to guess a four letter string. Each letter can be tried four times. If the letter cannot be guessed, we go to the next letter until the fourth letter is reached. I ...
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Joining huge CSV files and splitting the result into batches

I've got ~20GB of data about the same subject, concatenated from small files of 16kB, each produced by different measurement equipment. They share some headers (on the example: B, D & E) and they ...
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Multiplying square matrix with C pthreads (POSIX threads)

I'm a student, and I'm trying to make the product of two square matrix with some threads in the soup. I've already worked on some fast single-threaded product (with some cache-friendly tricks), and ...
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Reading input fast in Java for competitive programming

I have been solving problems on Timus Online Judge. In the beginning, I didn't worry much about I/O operations, so I just took some code from the internet and focused more on the logic. But after ...
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Looping through Files in a Folder

I have this simple looping macro, but I can't seem how to figure out how to make it run faster. I tried including more update = false statements as well as well as ...
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Base converting with strings from bases 1 to 36 to bases 1 to 36

I'm writing a fastest-code challenge over at PPCG relating to base conversion of bases 1 to 36, and as a part of the process for writing the competition, I decided to write my own program for it. This ...
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Parsing JSON in one go

I need to parse a simple JSON string (flat JSON, no hierarchy) for keys and values, and there is a system constraint that I cannot use any built-in JSON library and can only read a string once due to ...
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Optimzation removeClass() and addClass()

I am trying to simplify and optimize these line of codes. This is a jQuery function controls a <div> to expand up or expand down. This is my coding ...
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Construct binary tree from inorder and postorder traversal

The problem is taken from here. The tree is guaranteed not to have duplicate elements. My questions is, instead of creating new arrays leftInOrder, ...
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How to lose plants and aggravate people

Courtesy of a few posts around here I've discovered HackerRank. Poisonous Plants is one of their challenges. Of course, skip the following if you'd like to try it yourself. Challenge: There are ...
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Operations on a vector

I have the following class which is used for operations on a vector. The vector stores the following struct which has 3 enums and 1 boolean. Info represents a computer node. Nodes communicate with ...
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Transforming a list into a dictionary

I have a simple list and want to filter it by a specific key. But I guess my for loop solution is not an efficient way. I'm searching an other way or one best practice. ...
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Vectorising orthogonal-triangular decomposition for 3D matrix

I am trying to optimise the computation time of my code (for the second time after a first optimisation that gives very good results). Currently, this code is very time-consuming depending on the size ...