Questions tagged [memory-optimization]
Memory Optimization is a subset of Optimization: it is the goal of reducing the memory consumption (the amount of memory used during compile or run time) of your program or of a specific algorithm
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Find a sum using just two different digits
The problem statement was pretty easy and I was able to run half of the test cases, but some of the test cases in the end gave me the error of memory limit reached. What can I do here to improve the ...
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DFS-based exhaustive word grid search
I have implemented an exhaustive depth-first grid search that searches for all possible words in the 8 connected regions. Is there any way I can make this faster or memory efficient than it is now?
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Follow-up: How can we optimizing Java BigInteger operations?
This is the follow up question of How can we optimizing Java BigInteger operations?
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Reduce the number to 1 in a minimal number of steps, following the rules:
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Minimum number of copies of an application a company needs to purchase
Some applications from vendors are allowed to be installed on multiple computers per user with specific
restrictions. In our scenario, each copy of the application (ID 374) allows the user to install ...
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Improving interactive component performance with constant image translation
I am making this React Component for an interactive eye that moves and tracks the user's mouse cursor wherever it goes to in the webpage. However, I faced 3 problems while doing so.
The eye moves as ...
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How can this VHDL code for a 64-bit timer be improved to use less resources?
I have code for a 64-bit timer register which can take in a 32-bit slice and depending on the inputs, place the slice in the high side or the low side, or increment the counter.
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Python : adding a columns with count of missing values by row
I have a big python data-frame and I am trying to add a column to it with average number of missing values by row. I have inherited some code that is working but I'd like to reduce memory usage by ...
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Simple C++ Dynamicly allocated Matrix with only one memory allocation [closed]
I was bothered with existing matrix allocation methods that take variable rows and columns, so I made a small class that only needs one memory allocation.
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Java 8: Memory/Run-time Performance optimization to transform Json structure
Here is the sample Students json am processing
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Adding 1 million combinations of numbers to a file
The code adds approximately 1,720,000 different combinations of numbers to a file, some_other_file.txt. The numbers range from 2 digits long to 16 digits long.
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Optimise python functions for speed
Any one can help me optimise those three functions? I did profiling and timing of my original python file and found that most calls and time duration was because of those three functions.
The three ...
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Reduce size of minesweeper program to fit in qr code
I saw a guy who fit snake in a qr code and I wanted to do the same thing but with minesweeper. The maximum amount of data a qr code can hold is 3kb. My c program, without any compiler magic, takes up ...
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Workbook _open copy-paste reference sheet (30k+lines) from other workbook on change only
Working on finding a way to reduce in-cell formula size and memory usage of my excel workbook, i came up with the idea to "load" (copi-paste) the reference sheet i was mentioning a lot with ...
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Improving efficiency of download code
I'm in the process of reviewing some old code released by an old colleague.
We have a cronjob that executes once in an hour to download some thumbnails: the paths to the thumbnails are stored in a ...
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Compression Library for C using Huffman Coding
This is an update to a question I posed nearly two years ago about my implementation of Huffman Coding which I had written in C. Since then I have had time to grow as a programmer and have managed to ...
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Optimize Memory Java String Array
I was trying to solve one programming challenge :
First input is a list of connections which is made of pair of IPv4
address. Each IP has its own state which starts with false, each
connection also ...
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TypeScript: Object Duplication impact on performance
For a library I am working on, I have created a class WatchableCollection which will monitor an endpoint of an API for updates and issue events (...
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Hackerrank problem: Climbing the Leaderboard (Java)
I am solving the following Hackerrank problem: Climbing the Leaderboard.
The problem statement:
Alice is playing an arcade game and wants to climb to the top of the leaderboard and wants to track her ...
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Using deque for composing a string from 2 alternating stacks
We have 2 strings, say "JACK" and "DANIELS". We create two stacks from these strings, and then loop over them comparing first elements: whichever of the 2 goes first in lexicographic order gets popped ...
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C# class to dump the memory of a process in several formats
I made this because I couldn't find any good C# classes/libraries that allow you to dump the contents of a process' memory into a file or a byte array. I haven't tested this on 32 bit systems but it ...
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which for loop has better performance in javascript? [closed]
I can't find out which loop is better performance than another, if you know help me.
I try about loops in js and performance in this site
and this is code snippet, you can run and check.
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How does one increase effeciency of the memory functions of CUDA code?
I have the default code snippet that comes with the nvidia nsight eclipse V10.2, but I've modified it to do some profiling:
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Rust Iterator repeat_each
repeat_each transforms an iterator by repeating each value count times. It should be equivalent to ...
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How can I optimize my code that uses nested for loops?
I am working to solve a problem where I need to determine if a Point lies on a line connecting two other Points. For example, ...
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Restructuring loop logic and its effect on allocations
I came across in a code base # TODO this seems very clumsy to duplicate the loop code like this? so I figured I'd give it a shot as a learning exercise. I'd like ...
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SPOJ - ADDREV (Adding Reversed Numbers)
https://www.spoj.com/problems/ADDREV/
My answer to ADDREV challenge on SPOJ (link to the problem given above), written in JAVA, was accepted. However, the timing was 1.23 and memory used was 82M, ...
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Find number of unique paths to reach opposite grid corner
I have m x n grid. m >= 1 ; n >= 1
I have item in the top-left corner and need to reach bottom-right corner of the grid.
Item can only move either down or right.
I need to find possible unique ...
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Implementation of Luhn Check Algorithm
I am beginner a 1st year cs student. I am taking CS50 and I completed the first week problem of implementing Luhn Check algorithm. Though my solution works I feel it's very sloppy and not efficient. ...
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Preserving principle of locality while performing memory allocation
In order to implement an efficient AST visitor preserving the principle of locality, I implemented some reference counting mechanism in C++ with the following set of features:
All the newly allocated ...
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Custom allocator for improved cache locality and fast iteration in C++
I am writing a custom allocator for my educational game engine project where I need to iterate through a collection of components(similar to Unity3D) every frame. There are game objects and every game ...
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Reverse String : Recursion
We have to reverse char[] using recursion.
Input: ["H","a","n","n","a","h"]
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Reduce memory usage/lag with multiple large JSON files coming in through XHR
I need to show a map of the United States using Leaflet, where if the user clicks on a state, the map zooms in to view all of the state's census tracts. I need to do this without a significant delay ...
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Permutation code in C
I am pretty new to competitive programming. It took me almost 3 hours to make this, initially I started with 4 for loops and then to make it scalable for sizes bigger than 4, I decided to turn this ...
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Batch normalization code optimization?
I am trying to implement Deep Quaternion Networks. I was able to implement the batch normalization technique. But it requires a lot of GPU memory. Is there any way I can optimize the code provided ...
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hexdump(): A memory layout utility to help debugging / understanding / optimising of C++ memory model
EDIT: Refer this answer for improved solution with incorporated feedback and extended functionality. eg Automatically hexdump both parts of a stack/heap obj like <...
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Further Optimizing a Segmented Sieve of Eratosthenes
I've implemented a Segmented Sieve of Eratosthenes that assumes each segment is about length \$ \sqrt{N}\$ for some upper limit \$N\$.
I further optimized the function by skipping all the evens when ...
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TrainSet Practice Problem from CodeChef
A dataset consisting of N items. Each item is a pair of a word and a boolean denoting whether the given word is a spam word or not.
There shouldn't be a word included in the training set that's ...
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Decrypt multiple 10Mb files with defined password
One operation of my Android project is to decrypt one file (chosen in a set of ~30 files for pagination1) of ~10 Mb each and I do this with the following:
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Optimizing a TFxIDF vectorization - Python 3.x [closed]
I am attempting to train many classifiers to test their performance with classifying tweets as being from a political bot, or not (a binary 0 or 1 classifier).
My ...
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C# handling of images - is this best for memory usage?
I am working with a system that needs to consume product images uploaded by employees and resize them / add white padding to the sides to create square images to be consumed by our e-commerce site. I'...
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Split a string into valid words
I am trying to solve this LeetCode question:
Given a non-empty string s and a dictionary wordDict containing a list
of non-empty words, add spaces in s to construct a sentence where each
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Bank account balance program
Would my code be considered fairly optimal and efficient? If not, where can I look to improve the code? The program works just fine.
Would this method scale well if the dictionary containing the ...
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Incremental Sieve of Eratosthenes Generator
So I was fiddling around with the Euler challenges. One of the things they mentioned in their discussions of the solutions is the Sieve of Eratosthenes and that you can only use it when you know an ...
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Optimizing away log function calls depending on global log level
I am a member of a university team designing a nanosatellite.
We decided to implement our own (more lite) logging library to use, instead of, say, Google's glog, <...
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Generate a large block diagonal covariance matrix with exponential decay
I am implementing Kalman filtering in R. Part of the problem involves generating a really huge error covariance block-diagonal matrix (dim: 18000 rows x 18000 columns = 324,000,000 entries). We denote ...
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Custom malloc implementation
I have a malloc() implementation that relies purely on mmap. I'm fairly sure that it doesn't overwrite any of the internal ...
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Generating recursive class instances from an array of splitted values by dashes (as a folder tree)
Well, I'm trying to generate the following:
Input:
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