PSYCO disabled?

spalac24 2013-03-29 05:07:58 UTC #1

Hello, i've made 2 submissions to the problem spoj.com/problems/SOLDIERS/ in python.

The first one [6337958] got AC, it was from 2012-01-11 , however i recently resubmitted my solution [8993907] 2013-03-29 with the same compiler and now it gets NZEC, which is (i guess) because psyco is now disabled. Is there any workaround? psyco was really useful to handle large IO.

daft_wullie 2013-03-29 11:27:00 UTC #2

According to this post, psyco is available on cube cluster only. So you can still use it on most recent problems. On the other hand, most new problems can be solved without psyco. The importance of i/o appears to be reduced in comparison to efficient algorithms.

spalac24 2013-03-29 16:09:27 UTC #3

Jmm why disable it in pyramid? where things are even slower... I personally had the experience of problems not passing without psyco and when i added the lines they gave AC. Thanks for your answer.

daft_wullie 2013-03-29 22:02:42 UTC #4

well, I don't know why it is disabled.
Just wanted to mention that I' feel psyco becoming somewhat less important to solve problems in python.