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Unit (regression) testing scientific algorithms given floating point behavior
You shouldn’t expect bit-for-bit identical results. Even ab + cd is allowed by C, C++ and others to yield at least two different results.
You use different methods in different cases. For example, if ...
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algorithm needed for historical backups
Something simple is probably your best bet, for example:
Daily backups are kept for 1 month,
Weekly backups are kept for a year and
Yearly backups are kept forever.
For this use case, it is not ...
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Algorithm to utilize subsets of cache
My advise depends heavily on you being able/willing to change your main algorithm. As I understand it, your current algorithm takes three sets of values (countries, years and arguments) to perform ...
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Algorithm to utilize subsets of cache
So your "cache" creates one individual file for each unique request? And practically everything you ever pass to "arg" will be a unique request? So after a million requests your ...
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