Large Problems, Small Machines
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Large Problems, Small Machines

Transforming Your Programs with Advanced Algorithms

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Large Problems, Small Machines

Transforming Your Programs with Advanced Algorithms

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Large Problems, Small Machines: Transforming Your Programs with Advanced Algorithms describes a practical, real-world approach to program optimization based on advanced algorithms. Topics covered range from how to save storage using a restricted character set and how to speed up access to records by employing hash coding (or "scatter storage") and caching. A selective mailing list system is used to illustrate rapid access to and rearrangement of information selected by criteria specified at run-time. Comprised of six chapters, this book begins by discussing factors to consider when deciding whether a program needs optimization. In the next chapter, a supermarket price lookup system is used to illustrate how to save storage by using a restricted character set and how to speed up access to records with the aid of hash coding and caching. Attention is paid to rapid retrieval of prices. A selective mailing list system is then used to illustrate rapid access to and rearrangement of information selected by criteria specified at run-time. The book also considers the Huffman coding and arithmetic coding methods of data compression before concluding with a review of the characteristics of the algorithms encountered in previous chapters, as well as the future of the art of optimization. This monograph will be a useful resource for practicing computer programmers and those who intend to be working programmers.

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Publisher
Academic Press
Year
2014
ISBN
9781483271323
Topic
Mathematics
Subtopic
Mathematics General
Index
Mathematics

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Large Problems, Small Machines: Transforming Your Programs with Advanced Algorithms
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Dedication
  6. Figures
  7. Foreword
  8. Preface
  9. Chapter 1. Let's Cet Small (and Fast): Introduction to Optimization
  10. Chapter 2. Hash, Cache, and Crunch: A Supermarket Price Lookup System
  11. Chapttr 3. StrĂŹps, Bits, and Sorts: A Maiting List System
  12. Chapter 4. Cn U Rd The Okly? A Data Compression Utility
  13. Chapter 5. Free at Last: A Customer Database Program with Variabie Length Records
  14. Chapter 6. Mozart, No; Would you Believe Gershwin?
  15. Ordering Instructions
  16. Index