| author | jtang <jtang@web> | 2011-08-01 11:16:19 (GMT) |
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| committer | Jimmy Tang <jtang@tchpc.tcd.ie> | 2011-08-01 11:16:19 (GMT) |
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diff --git a/blog/posts/IO_can_be_a_killer_even_on_small_pieces_of_code.mdwn b/blog/posts/IO_can_be_a_killer_even_on_small_pieces_of_code.mdwn index 3eeb3fc..866a1ee 100644 --- a/blog/posts/IO_can_be_a_killer_even_on_small_pieces_of_code.mdwn +++ b/blog/posts/IO_can_be_a_killer_even_on_small_pieces_of_code.mdwn @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ [[!tag linux software draft]] +Having spent a week or two at fixing up a code for "Genetic Classification of Populations Using Supervised Learning" was interesting as it was, but I was baffled at why there were constant fopen's and fclose's for loading up an input file that never got altered. + +Removing the fopen/fclose calls to point to a piece of memory automagically made the the code run about 20% faster. The code isn't as slow as I thought it was going to be, it runs at quite an acceptable rate now. + [[!template id=related tagged="tagged(software) or tagged(linux)"]] |