Revision as of 05:31, 11 May 2008 edit Wookie2u (talk \| contribs) 55 edits Supplied a "stub" article for Schlemiel the painters algorithm... which is (IMHO) one of the fifty-five million things that every software engineer should be on the lookout for, no excuses.		Revision as of 05:36, 11 May 2008 edit undo Wookie2u (talk \| contribs) 55 edits →The Problem Next edit →
Line 55: * The cost of finding the end of the buffer (again) in ''strcat(buffer, ", ")'' is 15,270,965,703 (again). * The cost of finding the end of the buffer (again) in ''strcat(buffer, word)'' is 15,270,965,703 (again). * So the TOTAL COST is 15,270,965,710 * 3 + = 45,812,897,130 or about 45 billion clock ticks. * 45 billion cycles at 2 billion cycles per second (my CPU is 2.01GHz) is about 22 seconds. * 22 seconds to build a buffer! Ouch !!!!! !!!!! !!!!! !!!!! !! ~~----~~ == The Solution ==

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