Chatbox log - 2009-04-21 - Zelaron Gaming Forum

[17:16] Lenny: It's a JAR file because it's in Java... what's lame about that? It's the language we're being 'taught' at Uni, so it's the language I'm going to write in.

[17:16] Goodlookinguy: Except you don't run exes through Java.

[17:17] Goodlookinguy: JAR is lame

[17:17] Goodlookinguy: Learn a real language.

[17:17] Goodlookinguy: ASM, C, C++, C#!

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[17:20] Goodlookinguy: :E

[17:20] Goodlookinguy: >:E

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[17:23] Sum Yung Guy: stop being a douche gdg, let the man learn to walk first

[17:23] Sum Yung Guy: glg

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[17:38] Lenny: There's no point me learning to code in C++ when the language I'm marked on at Uni is Java.

[17:38] Lenny: Quite simply.

[17:39] Lenny: What I'm doing at the moment can be used as my personal project for this year.

[17:45] Lenny: Anyone, whilst I'm on the subject, I've cracked my problem - 1,000,000 characters can be generated every 0.4s at a steady rate for as long as desired. 1,000,000,000 characters, for example, takes exactly 6' 40" - which just so happens to be exactly 1000 times longer than 1,000,000 characters.

[17:45] Lenny: Boo yah!

[17:46] Lenny: The program, btw, is my take on the famous thought experiment - infinite monkeys at infinite typewriters.

[17:47] Lenny: It's in the very early stages at the moment, so all it does is generate characters and check the generated string against a text document dictionary containing 58000 words.

[17:47] Lenny: But it's getting there, slowly. =)

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[17:55] Goodlookinguy: BA!

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[18:08] Lenny: http://files.filefront.com/Virtual+M.../fileinfo.html

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[18:21] Goodlookinguy: 1.6?

[18:21] Goodlookinguy: I heard you talking about 1.5, but not 1.6.

[18:29] Goodlookinguy: I'm going to run the maximum number.

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[18:33] Lenny: it'll take 14 minutes and 18 or 19 seconds to generate, and then hours to compare.

[18:34] Lenny: Tomorrow I'm going to optimise the comparison code.

[18:34] Lenny: It's quite pointless generating 1000000 characters in 0.4s if it takes over a minute to go through the string with the dictionary.

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[18:43] Goodlookinguy: It won't take me 14-minutes.

[18:44] Goodlookinguy: Oh, and make this thing support 4-cores. My system is only using two on it.

[18:46] Goodlookinguy: The file is over a gigabyte already.

[18:53] Goodlookinguy: >:E Too big!

[18:55] Goodlookinguy: Oop, I have to go somewhere. Bye for now!

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