Tag Archives: Control flow

JavaScript Performance: for vs. while

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Stoimen

JavaScript Loops If you have read some preformance tests on JavaScript loops, you may have heard that “while” is faster than “for”. However the question is how faster is “while”? Here are some results, but first let’s take a look … Continue reading →

Posted in javascript | Tagged Computer programming, Computing, Control flow, firebug, Increment, javascript, JavaScript programming language, Software engineering, software/hardware, Technology/Internet, While loop | 3 Comments

Computer Algorithms: Binary Search

Posted on December 26, 2011 by Stoimen

Overview The binary search is perhaps the most famous and best suitable search algorithm for sorted arrays. Indeed when the array is sorted it is useless to check every single item against the desired value. Of course a better approach … Continue reading →

Posted in algorithms, PHP | Tagged Algorithm, binary search, Binary search algorithm, Control flow, famous and best suitable search algorithm, Fibonacci number, Fibonacci search algorithm, Fibonacci search technique, Golden section search, golden section search algorithm, Jump search, Mathematics, PHP, Recursion, Recursion theory, recursive and iterative solution, search algorithm, search algorithms, sequential search, suitable search algorithm, Theoretical computer science, two algorithms | Leave a comment

Using PHP’s array_diff in Algorithm Development

Posted on October 3, 2010 by Stoimen

array_diff can be really powerful. Once you’ve to find the different elements between two arrays you’ve to use array_diff. Here’s a case when you can use it while coding a simple algorithm. The Task You’ve one array with tickets of … Continue reading →

Posted in micro tutorial, PHP | Tagged array, Arrays, Computing, Control flow, Data structures, Data types, Foreach, Notation, PHP | 1 Comment

Friday Algorithms: A Data Structure: JavaScript Stack

Posted on July 16, 2010 by Stoimen

Algorithms and Data Structures Instead of writing about “pure” algorithms this time I’ve decided to write about data structures and to start with a stack implementation in JavaScript. However algorithms and data structures live together since the very beginning of … Continue reading →

Posted in algorithms, javascript, micro tutorial, web development | Tagged Abstract data type, Computer programming, Computing, Control flow, Data structures, Data types, javascript, Linked list, search algorithms, Software engineering, Stack, Subroutine, Technology/Internet, Tree traversal | Leave a comment

One Form – Multiple DB Records

Posted on June 4, 2010 by Stoimen

I’ve the impression that even it’s a simple technique it remains quite misunderstood! What’s the Goal? You’ve a simple HTML form with several groups of form elements. Imagine the situation with title and link groups. You can have 1, 2 … Continue reading →

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