<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 1:12 PM, <a href="mailto:phil@highoctane.be">phil@highoctane.be</a> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:phil@highoctane.be" target="_blank">phil@highoctane.be</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div>See</div><div><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8625280" target="_blank">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8625280</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>[ (1 to: 100000000) sum ] timeToRun </div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Here we get out of the SmallInteger range...</div><div><br></div><div>Apart FFI'ing the thing, do we have other options?</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>We're planning to have a Spur 64-bit system next year. Sista will inline the block in sum. But it's hardly representative. It's a constant. If performance is important, put it in a class variable. What do you really want to go fast?</div></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">best,<div>Eliot</div></div>
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