The Weird and The Wonderful

The Weird and The Wonderful forum is a place to post Coding Horrors, Worst Practices, and the occasional flash of brilliance.

We all come across code that simply boggles the mind. Lazy kludges, embarrassing mistakes, horrid workarounds and developers just not quite getting it. And then somedays we come across - or write - the truly sublime.

Post your Best, your worst, and your most interesting. But please - no programming questions . This forum is purely for amusement and discussions on code snippets. All actual programming questions will be removed.

Re: Yes I know it was me who wrote that...

Argonia11-Dec-13 5:04

Argonia

11-Dec-13 5:04

The results i pasted was with "Any CPU"
x64

1000
1000
1000
5363:2199:5338

x86

1000
1000
1000
4530:2305:4519

Visual studio Premium 2012 version 11 with Update 3, Win7/64, .NET 4.5.50709 to be exact

Anyway i don't see how he gets ~14 seconds for String.Equals

P.S i should say i have problems with my hard at work. I am waiting for it to die. This also can affect the pasted data. I wonder what the results will be with reading from SSD
Note to myself : seconds comes after milliseconds not minutes. Stupid

Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true

modified 11-Dec-13 11:18am.

Re: Yes I know it was me who wrote that...

Richard Deeming11-Dec-13 5:13

Richard Deeming

11-Dec-13 5:13

It's milliseconds, so it was just under 14 seconds, not minutes! Poke tongue | ;-P

I'm running the code in LinqPad[^], and I've tried both with and without optimisations enabled, but it doesn't make a huge difference.

"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer

Re: Yes I know it was me who wrote that...

Argonia11-Dec-13 5:16

Argonia

11-Dec-13 5:16

Yeah i know its in milliseconds but my upper processor forgot that after miliseconds seconds are next not minutes Big Grin | :-D

I am running it in debug mode with no optimisations.

Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true

Re: Yes I know it was me who wrote that...

Rob Grainger17-Dec-13 1:30

Rob Grainger

17-Dec-13 1:30

"I am running it in debug mode with no optimisations."

Why on earth try to benchmark code with no optimisations? Complete waste of time.

"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.

Re: Yes I know it was me who wrote that...

Richard Deeming11-Dec-13 4:09

Richard Deeming

11-Dec-13 4:09

It must be .NET 4.5 - my machine's an early Vista-era dual-core.

"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer

Re: Yes I know it was me who wrote that...

Jörgen Andersson11-Dec-13 20:16

Jörgen Andersson

11-Dec-13 20:16

You'll have to redo the test using the same textfile. I believe that's where most of the difference lies.

Politicians are always realistically manoeuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.
Buckminster Fuller

Re: Yes I know it was me who wrote that...

ledtech320-Dec-13 15:13

ledtech3

20-Dec-13 15:13

Could the difference be a extra file system filter driver slowing one down ?

Re: Yes I know it was me who wrote that...

Vladimir Svyatski15-Jan-14 10:37

Vladimir Svyatski

15-Jan-14 10:37

I've been always wondering why people just don't use string comparison functions with the case ignoring ability. Many languages have them. Why use ToLower or ToUpper if you don't really need that lowered string? One my colleague once told me that because of the belovers of ToUpper/ToLower the program he had to improve was doing its job during about 11 hours (the program was in C++)!!! After just replacing the appropriate functions with stricmp and similar ones (which compare ignoring the case) the program got the awesome performance boost: it managed to finish its execution in just one hour or such. Taste the difference!

lifecycle of a lifecycle of a lifecycle

Re: Yes I know it was me who wrote that...

phil.o12-Dec-13 23:03

phil.o

12-Dec-13 23:03

I would also have added a couple of .ToString()s somewhere, just to be sure Smile | :)

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Re: Yes I know it was me who wrote that...

Nagy Vilmos12-Dec-13 23:27

Nagy Vilmos

12-Dec-13 23:27

You really didn't think it through:

char p = item.charAt[0];
char f = item.charAt[1]
char u = item.charAt[1]
if (p == 'P' || p == 'p' &&
        u == '_' &&
        f == 'f' || p == 'F')
{
    // you're good to go....
}

speramus in juniperus

Re: Yes I know it was me who wrote that...

Richard Deeming13-Dec-13 1:36

Richard Deeming

13-Dec-13 1:36

Nagy Vilmos wrote:
f == 'f' || p == 'F'

Well that's just cruel! If you're going to rewrite it, at least make sure it works. D'Oh! | :doh:

"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer

Re: Yes I know it was me who wrote that...

Nicholas Marty18-Dec-13 4:12

Nicholas Marty

18-Dec-13 4:12

how about using the same character twice and the missing semicolons? Big Grin | :-D

Days Of Week

Mohamad M. Mohamad29-Nov-13 22:10

Mohamad M. Mohamad

29-Nov-13 22:10

Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saterday
Sunday

Anything wrong here?

My Name in English[^] Translation done By OriginalGriff

Re: Days Of Week

Marco Bertschi29-Nov-13 23:54

Marco Bertschi

29-Nov-13 23:54

محمد م. محمد wrote:
Saterday

It is called Saturday.

Veni, vidi, caecus

Re: Days Of Week

Mohamad M. Mohamad30-Nov-13 0:09

Mohamad M. Mohamad

30-Nov-13 0:09

Who said so?

My Name in English[^] Translation done By OriginalGriff

Re: Days Of Week

Marco Bertschi30-Nov-13 0:14

Marco Bertschi

30-Nov-13 0:14

Everyone speaking correct english.
Proof[^]

Veni, vidi, caecus

Re: Days Of Week

Mohamad M. Mohamad30-Nov-13 0:19

Mohamad M. Mohamad

30-Nov-13 0:19

Check this[^]

My Name in English[^] Translation done By OriginalGriff

Re: Days Of Week

Marco Bertschi30-Nov-13 0:37

Marco Bertschi

30-Nov-13 0:37

http://www.dumbtionary.com/word/saterday.shtml[^]
The word listed above (Saturday) is probably the correct spelling for the word that you entered (Saterday). This is just an educated guess based on commonly misspelled words. To double check that this is the correct word you can use the resources below to find the definition of Saturday, antonyms for Saturday, synonyms for Saturday, quotes relating to Saturday and other information about Saturday.

Veni, vidi, caecus

Re: Days Of Week

PIEBALDconsult30-Nov-13 5:37

PIEBALDconsult

30-Nov-13 5:37

"Saterday" may have a meaning, but it is not the name of the day of the week (in English).

Re: Days Of Week

Maximilien30-Nov-13 2:03

Maximilien

30-Nov-13 2:03

http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=saturday&word2=+saterday[^]

I'd rather be phishing!

Re: Days Of Week

Richard Deeming2-Dec-13 0:35

Richard Deeming

2-Dec-13 0:35

محمد م. محمد wrote:
Who said so?

The Romans:

Quote:[^]
The Romans named Saturday dies Saturni ("Saturn's Day") ...

"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer

Re: Days Of Week

Mohamad M. Mohamad2-Dec-13 2:40

Mohamad M. Mohamad

2-Dec-13 2:40

so do you have the meanings of the remaining days?

My Name in English[^] Translation done By OriginalGriff

Re: Days Of Week

Richard Deeming2-Dec-13 2:52

Richard Deeming

2-Dec-13 2:52

No, but Wikipedia does:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_week[^]

For English, most of the days are named after Norse gods:

Monday: Moon's day;
Tuesday: Tiw's day - a one-handed Norse god associated with single combat and pledges;
Wednesday: Wodan's day (aka Odin);
Thursday: Thor's day;
Friday: Frige's day;
Saturday: Saturn's day - the only day which retains it's Roman name in English;
Sunday: Sun's day;

"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer

Re: Days Of Week

DJ van Wyk11-Dec-13 19:52

DJ van Wyk

11-Dec-13 19:52

Brilliant answer. One bonus point for you.

My plan is to live forever ... so far so good

Re: Days Of Week

PIEBALDconsult30-Nov-13 5:47

PIEBALDconsult

30-Nov-13 5:47

Wrong forum.

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