Comma quibbling a la Eric and Jafar [A slightly wacky approach to the problem in C#]

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• Anonymous
  April 17, 2009
  Easy to fix, you always have to loop through it once anyways so... input = input.ToArray(); in the beginning of the method.

• Anonymous
  April 18, 2009
  XIU, You're right - that would be an improvement. However, Jafar and I were both coming at this problem from the direction of specifically NOT forcing the entire list to live in memory at once (as .ToArray will do). The reasons for avoiding this are pretty weak in this specific case because we're building up a string of each of those array elements anyway, but in general you can see significant memory benefits from NOT realizing an entire array and instead processing the elements as you need them. As I point out, my solution loses because it walks those elements three times - but if I'd managed to come up with a short, elegant way of creating those 3 Enumerators in such a way that the stream was traversed only once, I'd have solved both problems. And while I could write that code pretty easily, it added too much to what was supposed to be a simple solution, so I wimped out and didn't... :) Thanks for the feedback!!

• Anonymous
  April 18, 2009
  I appreciate your thoughtful optimization, David.  Such efficiencies translate to performant, scalable code.  Well done!