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[-] Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz 42 points 7 months ago

Could be easily made 50% space saving by only iffin all odds and return even on else. Maybe one if before to handle overflow to avoid wrong even if over the last if.

[-] Deebster@programming.dev 41 points 7 months ago

Well yeah, if you allow cheating!

[-] bjorney@lemmy.ca 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yeah but then ALL even numbers would be slow to compute because you would have to chain through every odd before you know that 2 is even.

Depends on the expected distribution of input values

[-] coloredgrayscale@programming.dev 1 points 7 months ago

Heuristic: keep it until 512, afterwards powers of 2, and numbers like 1000, 2000,.., 10000, 20000,... (regex: [0-9]000+)

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