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Spoj Cluster Upgradation
By gkeesh7, 10 years ago, In English

Hello everyone!! I have seen recently, that most of the Classical problems on Spoj Which used to be on the Pyramid Cluster (733 MHz) have now been migrated to the Cube Cluster (3 GHz). Just wanted to know Is it a good move or not, in your opinion ?

Does this up gradation affect the way people approached the Classical Problems on Spoj ? because time limits of some tasks are way too liberal (as far as C++/C are concerned) .

I know that time limits would have been carefully calculated so that solutions of inappropriate complexity would not pass, but still will this up gradation let unoptimized solutions pass like the ones with a higher constant factor which earlier used to time out ?

Or do you think it's a move to give breathing space for languages like Python etc.
Plus wouldn't that be a bit unfair for the guys who solved those problems like 2-3 years ago and got TLE for the above mentioned reasons.

Thanks in advance

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I saw a couple of "old" problems with a 0.112 second limit..

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    I never said time limit is way too liberal for "all" the tasks , I said "some" tasks. For Example an MST problem has a 15s Time limit on the Cube cluster now. Which earlier had a TL of 15s on Pyramid, that to me was pretty surprising.

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