I have about 500 lines of perl code that I would like to convert to C. The main goal behind this is performance optimization, namely with memory. The code makes a lot of use of 2d Perl Arrays and Hashtables. Most of the code is around reading in comma separated files, putting the data into a hashtable, and then running some computations based on what is in the hashtable. Right now the main data structure is a 2d hashtable, where the value of the hash is an array of values. This array of values takes up a lot of memory in Perl, and can likely be compressed to a data structure that is roughly 40x smaller.

Please only bid on this if you know how to profile code, assess memory leaks, work with pointers, malloc, and know how to compress data into small and efficient data structures.

Furthermore, in order to qualify to bid on this, you must take this piece of perl code and rewrite it in a different way so that it does the same thing but is written with at least 10 less characters

"while (<>) { print lc($_);}"Attached file: generator.pl.txt
File info: An input generator to hash.plAttached file: hash.pl.txt
File info: The screening application to write in CThe new screening challenge is the rewrite the 13 line hash.pl in C and have it take less than 10 megs in memory. It takes roughly ~100 megs in memory in Perl. You can use generator.pl to generate an input file to hash.pl.

perl generator.pl > input
perl hash.pl input

Check the memory utilization using taskmgr when you run hash.pl and then do it for your C program.