Adding new files to our database increases the processing time significantly. This is because the algorithm we use is not efficient. Let’s recap how it works. After we read the database in, we have a list of Person instances, and every Person instance maintains a list that tells which other people this person likes: If […]

One of the improvements we need to make on the Like Statistic application is to change the structure of the database where the datafiles are stored. The database is a directory with datafiles, and the program reads all datafiles from that given directory from a single level, but doesn’t read those from the subdirectories. In […]