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> From: "Andreas Raab" <andreas.raab(a)gmx.de>
> Date: 2 novembre 2004 22:42:16 GMT+01:00
> To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list"
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> Subject: Re: Naive number questions
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> Heh - I was going to write message saying that I'd like to see a
> measure of the actual difference in speed if we change this to:
>
> [x := 1000 * 10000000] timeToRun.
>
> :^) Besides, one of the more interesting things to do is to not use
> "long/int" but rather the Object integer type.
>
> Cheers,
> - Andreas
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Mauritz"
> <oxygene(a)studentenbude.ath.cx>
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> Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 12:55 PM
> Subject: Re: Naive number questions
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>
> Am Dienstag, 2. November 2004 21:41 schrieb stéphane ducasse:
>> in Squeak: but it took a lot more (in fact I stopped it).
>> Is there any reason why?
> because that code is ideal for a JIT (any compiler really - only
> constants,
> minimalistic parse trees) to figure out how to optimize.. actually I'm
> amazed
> that it's that much, instead of optimizing it to just three
> assignments.
>
>
> patrick mauritz
>
>