Removing print statements

[jixishan]

Are we allowed to remove print statements from the code to improve speed?

[jjd06]

Yes (so long as they aren't vital to functionality), but do remember that making things faster isn't the purpose of this exercise. In your report, you could propose the removal of printfs, but, unless you can show that doing so would give noticeable speedup, that would probably sound a bit silly.