algorithm – manchicken here…

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Gist of the Day: Find All Paths for an Undirected Graph

2013-09-14

I’ve been doing a lot of stuff lately with data structures and algorithms. This is one that seemed remarkably complicated to me – and still…

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Gist of the Day: Find Which List Items Make Up a Given Sum

2013-09-13

Here’s the scenario: you have two lists of integers, and you have a sum. Write an algorithm – in Perl, of course – to find…

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Gist of the Day: Re-Inventing Hashes… In Perl.

2013-09-12

Before you begin the well-deserved flaming, please understand that I do not intend on submitting this to CPAN. This is purely an academic exercise to demonstrate…

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Gist of the Day: Analyzing Performance with Benchmark.pm

2013-09-06

In my post on Inline::C a few days ago I mentioned The Rules of Optimization Club, and then I ranted a little bit about how if you…

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Gist of the Day: Inline::C in Perl

2013-09-04

I like Perl and I like C (most of the time), and sometimes I like to mix the two. The two main reasons I might…