Alan Lovejoy <squeak-dev.sourcery <at> forum-mail.net> writes:

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I always like to beat the 'Smalltalk is slow' brigade.  "Go, on then, how many
digits are then in 5000 factorial (5000 x 4999 x 4998 x 4997 ... x 1)?"

5000 factorial asString size 

only takes a couple of seconds to return 16326

... John