[Tutor] Nine Language Performance Round-up: Benchmarking Math & File I/O

[Christian Wyglendowski]

> -----Original Message-----
> 
> > My change yielded close to a 30% speed increase.  I got the idea to 
> > reduce the amount of assignments from a comment on the 
> article.  What 
> > other methods could be used to speed this up?
> 
> First of all, benchmarks of anything else but programs that 
> actually perform a time critical function that *you* really 
> need are rarely relevant. 

Agreed.  I was just trying to experiment to see what could be done to
speed it up a bit.  But from what Lloyd pointed out, I cheated anyhow.
Oh well.  Thanks for the info about numeric and pyrex.  I'll have to
check those out.

Christian
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