Posted in algorithms, php | Posted on 24-06-2008
Data structures are one of the core elements of computer science and they are also fun to program. But being a web developer the opportunity for implementing them in any application is quite rare. But then I thought, What the heck! I can just code for the joy of it, and it will also help me brush up on my DS skills. So here it is, a single linked list implementation in PHP for whoever may care. I will be posting other data structure and algorithm implementations here, so keeping watching. The code is given below.
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Posted in php, tools | Posted on 24-06-2008
Code tuning is an essential part of programming. But most programmers would rather try to complete the project in hand then spend time optimizing a piece of code. A well tuned and optimized code block can speedup your application by an order of magnitude or even more.
Many people confuse profiling with benchmarking. A profiler is a analysis tool that lets you measure the performance of code at runtime. Profiling an application lets you find bottlenecks in your application code. You can find which part of your code is taking most of the time, you can than optimize that part of code. For example if there are 4 functions in your application, profiling may report the following distribution:
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