At 12:49 PM -0400 5/25/2000, JArchibald at aol.com wrote:
>All--
>
>I know some have encouraged the demise of MVC (can we refer to such as
>"former" Smalltalkers). But I think this is going a little to far:
>
>[1000 factorial] timeToRun  =morphic=> 52 =mvc=> 3887
>[2000 factorial] timeToRun  =morphic=> 243 =mvc=> 17737
>[3000 factorial] timeToRun  =morphic=> 523 =mvc=> 42522
>[4000 factorial] timeToRun  =morphic=> 754 =mvc=> 94113
>[5000 factorial] timeToRun  =morphic=> 1505 =mvc=> 126906
>[6000 factorial] timeToRun  =morphic=> 2005 =mvc=> 186530
>[7000 factorial] timeToRun  =morphic=> 2985 =mvc=> 259641
>[8000 factorial] timeToRun  =morphic=> 3699 =mvc=> 345386
>[9000 factorial] timeToRun  =morphic=> 4508 =mvc=> 443034
>[10000 factorial] timeToRun =morphic=> 5428 =mvc=> 554531
>
>Problem solved. Now the next problem -- how to make an equal opportunity
>LargeIntegers?

I was unable to repeat this.

[5000 factorial] timeToRun 2086

Same results, both on MVC and Morphic on my bondi blue iMac.  For the 
record, I started in MVC and ran just fine.
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