On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 11:27:01AM +0200, Daniel Vainsencher wrote:
> That should make Squeak... around twice as fast as optimized C!!! Cool
> ;-)
> 
> (or, IOW - it should make what 200x as fast? what does this affect?)

Oops, sorry.  It speeds up finding the sum of elements of a FloatArray
by more than 200x.  I've found the impact on the overall user experience
to be somewhat less drastic :-)  Actually, more like non-existent; if 
this had been a bottleneck anywhere, it would have been fixed long ago.

Joshua

> 
> Daniel
> 
> Joshua 'Schwa' Gargus <schwa at cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
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