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0 pointsyters6y ago0 comments

for limited runtime you can

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ukj6y ago

So you were unable to compress the stream given the allocated time.

Perhaps you could've compressed it had you kept running for just a second longer?

ytersOP6y ago

i mean run all the shorter bitstrings until time runs out or they terminate.

ukj6y ago

How does “time run out” in practice other than you putting an upper bound on your computation?

Obviously, the code will not halt until it compresses the stream successfully.

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ukj6y ago

So you were unable to compress the stream given the allocated time.

Perhaps you could've compressed it had you kept running for just a second longer?

ytersOP6y ago

i mean run all the shorter bitstrings until time runs out or they terminate.

ukj6y ago

How does “time run out” in practice other than you putting an upper bound on your computation?

Obviously, the code will not halt until it compresses the stream successfully.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse