And then we're going to turn to the question of efficiency. How do we measure efficiency of algorithms? Which is going to be a really important thing that we want to deal with, and we'll start it today, it's undoubtedly going to take us a couple more lectures to finish it off.

然后我们会回头继续讨论效率问题,我们如何计算算法的效率？,我们处理这些问题的时候,最重要的事情是什么？,我们今天要去讨论这个问题，毫无疑问我们要用,挺多节课来学习这个。

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So what we want to do, is, I guess another way of saying it is, efficiency is really about choice of algorithm.

因此我们想做的就是，换种说法，效率实际上是算法的选择，我们想要培养你们。

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Alright, I have the problem so clearly this algorithm whatever it's gonna be is gonna be at least twice as fast because I'm doing half as much work.

现在，这个问题已变得清晰,不管怎么样，排序算法的效率,至少是之前的两倍,因为我只需要做一半的工作。

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What you're much better at doing is saying how do I take the problem I've got and map it into a class of algorithms about which I know and use the efficiencies of those to try and figure out how to make it work.

当你碰到问题的时候,更好的方法是把遇到的问题映射,到已经设计好的算法中去,并用这些算法来提高效率,来保证问题得到解决。

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And we want to help you learn how to map a problem into a class of algorithms of some efficiency That's our goal.

学会如何将一个问题,映射到一类,提升效率的算法中去,这就是我们的目标。

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That's an important observation, and as we get to the part of the course we talk about computational complexity, you'll see that what we really care about is not how efficient the program is on easy problems but how efficient it is on hard problems.

我们已经学习了这门课程的一部分了，我们要开始认识到,计算的复杂度这个概念，你会学习到我们在乎的并不是,算法在简单问题上的工作效率,而是解决复杂问题的效率。

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