Naive number questions

John M McIntosh johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com
Thu Nov 4 00:55:40 UTC 2004


No no think bigger
100000 factorial

That takes a bit of time, the large positive integer is 189,589 bytes  
in size, mind it seems lots of time is taken to do the inspect which  
triggers a printString which takes a LONG time.

So extra credit for doing printString size

This tests object creation and GC timing & abilities, more important  
real world necessities for GC based VMs versus counting to a few  
trillion.

On Nov 3, 2004, at 1:50 AM, stéphane ducasse wrote:

> yes I did
>
> 1000 factorial / 999 factorial
>
> 1000 factorial
>
> ;)
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