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Date:      Sat, 3 Dec 2016 09:20:22 -0700 (MST)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Gian Piero Carrubba <gpiero@rm-rf.it>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Calculating size of a corresponding ISO9660+UDF image?
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.20.1612030918130.87845@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <20161130131842.bogzzbxpuclpj64p@butterfly.fdc.rm-rf.it>
References:  <25788.1480501137@segfault.tristatelogic.com> <20161130131842.bogzzbxpuclpj64p@butterfly.fdc.rm-rf.it>

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On Wed, 30 Nov 2016, Gian Piero Carrubba wrote:

> * [Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 02:18:57AM -0800] Ronald F. Guilmette:
>> 1)  How to perform "bin packing" to get as many files onto each blank BD-R 
>> disk as possible without exceeding the 25GB limit.  (This "bin packing" is 
>> said to be an NP-hard problem, but I'll muddle through this part somehow, 
>> even if I end up having my program just try all possible packings. I wasn't 
>> in a hurry anyway. :-)
>
> As you've mentioned Perl, I recall this problem being discussed in Higher 
> Order Perl[0].

There are at least two Perl modules that do the "knapsack" algorithm. I 
looked at them for this type of problem, and settled on using 
Algorithm::BinPack, available in ports as devel/p5-Algorithm-BinPack.



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