Comments by "Winnetou17" (@Winnetou17) on "It's Really Just That Bad" video.

  1. It is not. You can add a string, let's say of 150 characters in length, that's only at difference 10 of another 150 characters or so string in the original input.txt. But make this new string have the initial first 100 characters be the same as the original string, and the 10 difference to occur in the last 50 characters. The "optimized" Fortran-like program would incorrectly compute that the minimum distance is 0, while in reality the minimum distance is still 7.
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  2. If you want to be teched by Casey, I hope you watched the last minute or so of the video.
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  3.  @theTweak0284  * I write Fortra (mostly F77 with some nice things from F90) due to some libs that I work with, and I have huge respct for anyone who was forced to write in a lang that did not let func or var names be longer than 6 chars.
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  4. Same. But he did got it pretty quickly.
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  5. I think it is intentional
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  6. I didn't, but I saw several comments of people realizing even later that it wasn't a reaction video. So you're not the only one :)
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  7. On your first point, IT IS objectively wrong. That "if the min distance is 7 for very large inputs" is NOT a given, it just so HAPPENS to be in this example. You don't know the input beforehand. If you add another string to the input and get to have two strings 150 characteres long and their distance is 10, but the first 100 chacters are the same, Fortran would say that the min distance is 0, while in reality it is still 7.
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  8. @ Glad to help :)
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  9. Isn't multithreading difficult in FORTH ?
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