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By himanxu_05, 4 months ago, In English

I am not able to solve cses book shop problem using recursive method as i am getting TLE. I am not that good in iterative method can somebody tell me what is wrong and how to prevent it. Below is my code


#include <bits/stdc++.h> int n , x; int h[1001] , s[1001]; const int mxn = 1e5 + 1; int dp[1001][mxn]; int rec(int lvl ,int capa) { if (lvl == n) return 0; if (capa > x) return 0; if(dp[lvl][capa] != -1) return dp[lvl][capa]; int ans {}; ans = rec(lvl + 1, capa); // ans = INT_MIN; if (capa + h[lvl] <= x) { ans = std::max(ans , s[lvl] + rec(lvl + 1, capa + h[lvl])); } return dp[lvl][capa] = ans; } int main() { std::cin >> n >> x; memset(dp,-1,sizeof(dp)); for (int i = 0 ; i < n ; i++) { std::cin >> h[i]; } for (int i = 0 ; i < n ;i++) { std::cin >> s[i]; } std::cout << rec(0,0); return 0; }
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You should always link the problem when asking for help and also describe your approach because it helps others understand your code.

That said, I think the tle is probably because the judge is too slow.

Other than running an iterative solution, you could try to optimise memory (look up alternating row trick). But I am not sure this would necessarily help you pass the time limit.

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Try writing iterative solution

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You should exchange the dimensions to avoid cache misses since we have to do 10^8 operations in 1 second(which is large enough).

You can refer to one of the comments regarding TLE in this blog:

https://mirror.codeforces.com/blog/entry/70018