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 at studentenbude.ath.cx>
To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list" 
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Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 12:55 PM
Subject: Re: Naive number questions


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