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performance between the data structures

I have developed two existing data structures and I want to see their performances over a certain algorithm. In this case I use Dijkstra's algorithm with binary and Fibonacci heaps. Just to ask, if I ...
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VAR autoincrement with constant space consumption for super large tables

Assume there was a database system that had a data type called VARINT or some variant that allowed instead of fixed-length INTs ...
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Optimizantion of Hierarchical Data Propagation

I have a system in existence which works on parent-child model. They share common attributes, as they belong to same class. A parent can enforces certain data on any user selected attribute, and the ...
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Finding maximum and minimum of consecutive XOR values

Given an integer array (maximum size 50000), I have to find the minimum and maximum $X$ such that $X = a_p \oplus a_{p+1} \oplus \dots \oplus a_q$ for some $p$, $q$ with $p \leq q$. I have tried this ...
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How to determine the Utilization and Efficiency of a file server?

I have shown my work below for the problem and would appreciate if someone can let me know if I'm on the right track or point me in the right direction if not. An 8 processor file server handles a ...
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Determine interference factors in parallel computing

Parallel processes interfere with each other in many ways, by competing for shared resources such as shared caches, memory, disks, etc. Would it be possible to determine latent factors just with a ...
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How to generate inputs to evaluate the performance of an implementation?

How can we assert that the performance of an implementation matches the expected performance defined in terms of Big-$\mathcal{O}$ and friends by generating best/worst case inputs? I'm thinking of a ...
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How fast can we find all Four-Square combinations that sum to N?

A question was asked at Stack Overflow (here): Given an integer $N$, print out all possible combinations of integer values of $A,B,C$ and $D$ which solve the equation $A^2+B^2+C^2+D^2 = N$. ...
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Benchmarking shortest route algorithms [closed]

I am writing a piece for college on shortest route algorithms for data networks. I would like to compare a selection of A*, Bellman-Ford, Floyd-Warshall, Euclidian shortest path and Dijkstra. The ...
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Theoretical speed gain of quad core vs. single core

I first asked this question at cstheory, but they suggested to ask my question here, so here it goes ... I'm working on my masters thesis and I need to have theoretical value of the (average) speed ...
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A faster, leaner JavaScript for scientific computing: what features should I keep?

Here I'm really interested in lowering barriers to mathematical education. Target: I'd like to see created for the JavaScript community, an equivalent of the Python-based/linked scientific and ...