London | 25-SDC-Nov | Aida Eslamimoghadam | Sprint 2 | Add caching to improve performance#144
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| @@ -26,7 +27,11 @@ def ways_to_make_change_helper(total: int, coins: List[int]) -> int: | |||
| if total_from_coins == total: | |||
| ways += 1 | |||
| else: | |||
| intermediate = ways_to_make_change_helper(total - total_from_coins, coins=coins[coin_index+1:]) | |||
| ways += intermediate | |||
| ways += ways_to_make_change_helper( | |||
| total - total_from_coins, | |||
| coins=coins[coin_index + 1:] | |||
| ) | |||
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Array and tuple creations are relatively costly operations.
From lines 6 and 32, we know coins can only be one of the following 9 arrays:
[200, 100, 50, 20, 10, 5, 2, 1]
[100, 50, 20, 10, 5, 2, 1]
[50, 20, 10, 5, 2, 1]
...
[1]
[]
We could further improve the performance if we can
- avoid repeatedly creating the same sub-arrays at line 32 (e.g. use another cache), and
- create key as (total, a_unique_integer_identifying_the_subarray) instead of as (total, tuple of coins)
- There are only a small number of different subarrays. We can easily assign each subarray a unique integer.
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Added caching (memoisation) to avoid repeated calculations and improve performance of recursive functions.