I assume that's where the slowdown comes from here - scanf needs to implement a ton of features, some of which need the input length, and the implementor expected it to be run on short strings. I think part of the problem is that scanf has a very broad API and many features via its format string argument.
), which you read as “parse the digits at the start of the string into a number,” which is obviously linear.
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it’s very easy to write accidentally quadratic code and the canonical example is this sort of triangular computation where you do some linear amount of work processing all the finished or remaining items on each item you process.Īs I read the article, my guess was that it was some terrible synchronisation bug (eg download a bit of data -> hand off to two sub tasks in parallel -> each tries to take out the same lock on something (eg some shared data or worse, a hash bucket but your hash function is really bad so collisions are frequent) -> one process takes a while doing something, the other doesn’t take long but more data can’t be downloaded until it’s done -> the slow process consistently wins the race on some machines -> downloads get blocked and only 1 cpu is being used) actually measure performance and try to improve it The linear search was also an example of bad quadratic code that works fine for small inputs. With smaller test data this may have been harder to catch. I think most people’s mental model of sscanf is that it would be linear in the number of bytes it scans, not that it would be linear in the length of the input. I don’t think the lesson here is “be careful when parsing json” so much as it’s “stop writing quadratic code.” The json quadratic algorithm was subtle. But if it was a CPU bottleneck then who works there that wouldn't just be irked to try to nail it? I mean it seems like a natural thing to try to understand what's going on inside when time is much higher than expected even in the case where performance is not crucial.
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But how could R* not do this? GTAV is so full of great engineering. Stunning work just having binary at hand. If this is true that's the biggest WTF I saw in the last few years and we've just finished 2020. Parsing JSON?! I thought it was some network game logic finding session magic. Then there are man-years wasted (in a way different than desired). I'm certain that many people left this game because of the waiting time.
Holy cow, I'm a very casual gamer, I was excited about the game but when it came out I decided I don't want to wait that long and I'll wait until they sort it out.