From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,71c743c03ed191fe X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-09-23 15:21:32 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!snoopy.risq.qc.ca!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!harp.news.atl.earthlink.net!ix.netcom.com!nobody From: Dennis Lee Bieber Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Beginer problem: variable array size Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 13:10:34 -0700 Organization: >> Leaf-Eating Penguins? << Message-ID: References: <1032789075.864322@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: a5.f7.d4.4a Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Server-Date: 23 Sep 2002 22:25:46 GMT User-Agent: KNode/0.6.1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:29294 Date: 2002-09-23T22:25:46+00:00 List-Id: tmoran@acm.org fed this fish to the penguins on Monday 23 September 2002 10:09 am: > > assumption and why I made it. If the assignment came up in an > advanced class after the prof had been describing a space probe > crashing into the sun, collecting a measurement every 50 nanoseconds > for one half second, then sorting and transmitting those 10 million > measurements in the remaining half second before meltdown, I would > make different assumptions, document them, and write the program a > different way. > Granted, this comes after 20 years in the industry (and maybe no more -- I was laid-off )... Given your description as the requirements I'd have to argue at a design review that it would be more efficient to have the probe NOT sort the measurements, instead using the time wasted on sorting to collect even MORE data measurements and send the whole batch in a continuous stream -- leave the sorting to the ground station post processing, wherein any delay is not critical. -- > ============================================================== < > wlfraed@ix.netcom.com | Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber KD6MOG < > wulfraed@dm.net | Bestiaria Support Staff < > ============================================================== < > Bestiaria Home Page: http://www.beastie.dm.net/ < > Home Page: http://www.dm.net/~wulfraed/ <