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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Recording Audio Continuously in C
As an ongoing little side project of mine, I've been working on recording audio in c. You can the code's progression by looking at past versions (V1.0, V2.0).
I've found that my past versions were ...
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Rust Brainfuck interpreter
I took the code from kostyas benchmarks for the Rust Brainfuck interpreter and tried to optimize it. There is also a discussion on Reddit about the poor performance of Rust in the Benchmark.
Before ...
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Extending Sieve of Eratosthenes beyond a billion
For MAX value of 1000000000 (\$10^9\$), it takes about 45 seconds to reach the line where it prints "done". How can I speed this ...
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Bruteforce MD5 Password cracker
I just started learning Go, and I wanted to created a project to learn more about concurrency in go. I heard about Go's lightweight threads, so I wanted to give them a try.
This program uses ...
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Intersection over Union for rotated rectangles
Problem Statement
I am trying to find the intersection over union (IoU) metric for one to several rotated rectangles compared to many different rotated rectangles. Here are some images to help ...
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Traversing an infinite graph using Dijkstra's algorithm to maximize cookie production speed
Imagine the following situation:
It is the year 20XX. You are a prodigious baker, capable of baking cookies at an astonishing rate of 1 cookie per second. Your archnemesis, an equally excellent baker,...
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Printing 300 pages
I have a problem with my printing program, in which it uses up too much resources while printing (to paper or to .pdf). I try to manually dispose as much as I can, but for example, when I tried ...
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Where it all begins: Khronos
This is the main.c file for Khronos, a personal project of mine. This is basically where the whole program is setup, run and then quit. I'll post the short ...
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Python genetic sequence visualizer
I'm a beginner at python, and this is my first major project. Inspired by this reddit post, I wrote a program that accepts a DNA sequence (in a FASTA file format) and generates a graphical ...
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Unique value finder
For our first assignment in our algorithm class we are suppose to solve several different questions using information from a 2D array. We are also suppose to optimize our code to get more marks on our ...
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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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Frequency count of single words and word pairs over 20 million tweets
My application needs to read 20-million-line text files and count the word frequencies for one and two words.
For example:
A B A B SSS G D A
One word Frequency
A: 3
B: 2
SSS: 1
G: 1
Two Word ...
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Search father (x) of the number D(x) and measure time and memory consumed
We define function D(x) as following:
D(x) = x + sum of digits of x
+ sum of prime factors of x then call x the father of D(x)
Write a program that gets input ...
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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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Sparse 3D binning/histogram function
This is a function written in Python I wrote to process galaxy catalogs for cosmology research, however it is more generally applicable than just my pipeline.
The goal is to take a Python list of ...
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Calculating the Average Minimum Length of Random Numbers From 0 - 1 that Adds up to Greater Than 1
My Computer Science teacher gave us a task to calculate the average after one billion trials.
His exact assignment was this:
Consider generating a sequence of random numbers on the interval [0, 1) ...
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Summation of primes for large inputs
I'm doing a problem from Project Euler to find the sum of all primes under two million.
My code manages to get a pretty good result for small inputs, but when trying inputs like million or two it ...
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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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How to decrease memory usage in codeeval Road Trip challenge
I'm solving easy CodeEval challenges in Python 2.7. Usually my solutions use around 256 bytes of memory according to CodeEval. With Road Trip however while time used is still low (30-40ms), memory is >...
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Maximize a traveling employee's vacation over k weeks
I have following problem statement
A lazy employee works at a multi-national corporation with N offices
spread across the globe.
They want to work as few days over k weeks as possible.
Their company ...
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Make To and From date range picker using jQuery UI
I implemented date range picker logic using the jQUery UI datepicker component:
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Number guess game program in python 3
I started learning Python just yesterday, and so I am aware of my lack of knowledge regarding the language. Below is a program I wrote to simulate a guessing game. I ended up creating a lot of ad hoc ...
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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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Type-agnostic BubbleSort in C
I'm trying out different sorting algorithms for learning purposes, here I'm doing a "type-agnostic" bubbleaort.
I modeled the function signature after the standard library's ...
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The performance of the simulation for an ant's random walk on a 5x5 grid
I have written a simulation in order to solve the 280th problem in Project Euler, and the simulation basically repeat the given experiment 5m times, and for each experiment, writes the ExpNo - #...
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Monitoring the recursive growth of a zombie rabbit population
Breeding like rabbits
Write a function answer(str_S) which, given the base-10 string
representation of an integer \$S\$, returns the largest n such that \$R(...
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Prime number segmented sieve
I tried to solve the SPOJ prime number problem below. The code produced correct results, but Time limit exceeded and also memory need around 970M which is not efficient(?)
How can I optimize this ...
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Count duplicates in a JavaScript array
This is actually a hackerrank interview question I have already solved but I need guidance on how to optimize it for the
Time
Space
Given an array of integers, your task is to count the number of ...
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Huffman Coding library implemented in C
I have written a small library for C that implements the Huffman coding algorithm as outlined in David Huffman's paper on Minimum-Redundancy Codes, and a small test program to implement it. The ...
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Optimizing variable order Markov Chain Implementation
I've created a variable order Markov chain built on top of a tree, but I can't train on datasets >1MB worth of text without running out of memory. I'm sure the tree can be replaced by something else ...
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Read CSV and use bidirectional BFS to find the shortest connections between actors
I have a really huge file¹ with 17 million records in it.
Here is a sample of the file:
Actor Movie
1,2
2,2
3,1
4,3
2,3
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Extending Sieve of Eratosthenes beyond a billion - follow-up
Follow up form Extending Sieve of Eratosthenes beyond a billion
Taking suggestions from the comments on the previous post:
Updated Code: This takes about 22 seconds for MAX as \$10^9\$ to reach "...
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In place solution to remove duplicates from a sorted list
I am working on the problem removeDuplicatesFromSortedList
Given a sorted array nums, remove the duplicates in-place such that each element appear only once and ...
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Genetic Sequence Visualizer - Generating large images
Inspired by this reddit post, I have written a program that accepts a DNA sequence (in a FASTA file format) and generates a graphical representation.
HIV virus and Ebola virus
My program works like ...
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Two-dimensional array, modified one field at a time
Title says it all. I'm basically initializing a two-dimensional array and changing the fields one at a time.
It might be a good idea to do this OO.
A Grid class ...
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Program for activity selection exceeds time limit
I've been trying to solve this problem for some while and the solution I have come up with exceeds the lime limit by 1-3 ms and 2 out of 10 tests get a memory issue error. Why is that? This is the ...
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SPOJ Adding Reversed Numbers
Recently, I was taking up this challenge and choose my favorite language 'Ruby' to do it.
My following solution got accepted (Gist).
For each test case, I am to reverse two numbers, add them, and ...
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Matrix class with space-optimized triangular (lower and upper) variants
I've written a class for square numerical matrices (of doubles, in this case), in C++11. Since I intend to use this class later ...
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Python script which sends telegram message if Raspberry Pi's temperature crosses 60 °C
I need to know if there is any way I can optimize my code so that it does not use 0.6% of my total memory - which is approx. 22.4MB. This is a really small script that runs for as long as the ...
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Sieve of Eratosthenes for prime generation
I was originally going to write this intro as just being the bare-bones "here's my problem, here are some ideas, what do you recommend" format (which I am still going to follow, mind you), but I've ...
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Build embedded XML based on string containment
I have a list of strings that represent a path. These are unique, unsorted values that look like this:
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Pool allocator for a scripting language parser
At the moment I'm writing a parser and interpreter for a custom scripting language, to learn more about the basic concepts involved and to get more familiar with tools like ...
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Ternary Search Tree / N-Gram Model in Python
I implemented a word n-gram model using a character ternary search tree. It is intended to be passed a generator that yields a long sequence of words (from a corpus) and its requirements are that it
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Kattis problem Amanda Lounges
I wrote this solution to Kattis problem Amanda Lounges in Scala. TL;DR: It's a graph theory problem where I read in a list of edges from stdin and try to compute the minimum number of nodes that ...
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Implementation of itoa which allocates the string
This is my implementation of itoa() (Integer to Alpha), which converts an integer to a string. Memory management and optimization is important. The caller is not ...
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Choose random instants in a day with a low memory footprint
I'm looking for a way to plan a list of X events at the start of the day...
What I did before:
At 02:00 every day, choose X timestamps from "now" to 01:59 the next day.
That worked well but ...
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C++11 : simple Tree implementation
I have created a C++11 implementation of a simple Tree for an online code challenge,
I'd like to know how to improve it and how to make my code use less memory :
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Transpose tab-delimited table in C
I have looked online for transposing programs, but have found that they have extreme RAM use for large tables. The RAM use is so extreme I can't run most jobs on my laptop. I also have a Perl ...
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Updating number of votes with a "Like" button
I have a "Like" button in my iOS app that updates the votes every time it's tapped. Just like Facebook, Instagram, ProductHunt, etc.
I have a custom cell where that ...
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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 ...
