Ivan,
As for the problem stated, I’d start with a SAX parser for a
J. Random Language (be it Prolog, Perl, Basic, or Common Lisp),
and proceed from there. It may depend on how the “duplicates”
are defined, but I see nothing in the problem to make it
unsolvable on “not-so-decent” hardware.
My argument is that you are still being paid for your time doing this
-- while the problem becomes *non-existent* (in 99.99% of all cases,
which for many companies is 100%) when people have decent computers.
So, this is a matter of a good management decision and shouldn't
involve additional programmer effort.
Both sides are happy: the management saves big, and the programmers
get involved in more interesting problems. :)
Cheers,
Dimitre
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Ivan Shmakov <oneingray(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com>
wrote:
Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> writes:
[…]
>> I want the identity transform to remove duplicate elements in
>> <First> and remove duplicate elements in <Second>.
[…]
> My new home PC I bought in May has 32GB RAM.
> It seems obvious that paying $2000 for a decent computer
It may quickly get off-topic, but I don’t seem to recall paying
over $500 at once for computer hardware, or owning a single box
that would cost as much at the time of appraisal — and that’s in
some 20 years of owning “the micros.”
(That being said, my former employer had bought some computers
at well above that price.)
> is so much cheaper than paying programmers (myself included) to
> invent tricks — at least for this kind of problems.
As for the problem stated, I’d start with a SAX parser for a
J. Random Language (be it Prolog, Perl, Basic, or Common Lisp),
and proceed from there. It may depend on how the “duplicates”
are defined, but I see nothing in the problem to make it
unsolvable on “not-so-decent” hardware.
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