Hi,
I have a project I'm working on which requires sheer brute force to get the answer. I was wondering what programming language would perform a huge number of simple mathmatical calculations the fastest.
I do not have any other requirement other than being able to come up with the answer in the shortest timescale possible... at the moment although this is very vague I am estimating it would take my computer approximately 5 months to perform all the calculations, based on a trial run of a smaller amount of data.
I have no idea what would be best... Would an older "simpler" language such as Pascal be faster or an object orientated language or....
Any advice would be appreciated
Thanks
Dave
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| 14Dec2010,23:11 | #2 |
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im curious. what exactly are you working on? there could be many things to take into account on this speed thing, so if you could fill me in a little more i might be able to help you out a little.
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| 15Dec2010,14:13 | #3 |
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the best way to describe the project is "trying find the answer to a jigsaw puzzle" I effectively want to write a program to work through each possible combination to see if the pieces fit or not, there are billions of possible combinations.
The maths isn't too complex, just a lot of it! |
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| 21Feb2011,03:52 | #4 |
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Originally Posted by dave1234 Old Nifty x86 Assembly is the best for your work.. You can have a look at the Jhon The Ripper Its pretty well written ... |
