POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Numeric performance : Re: Numeric performance Server Time
6 Sep 2024 11:20:33 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Numeric performance  
From: andrel
Date: 16 Feb 2009 17:04:54
Message: <4999E305.4030602@hotmail.com>
On 15-2-2009 21:15, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> If I add up a few thousand 32-bit signed integers, it takes 20 seconds.
>>
>>   What are you using? A 8086? In fact, I think even a 8086 could sum
>> a lot more than a few thousands of integers in 20 seconds.
> 
> You understand that when I said "a few thousand", I just meant "a lot", 
> right? I wasn't being rigorous about the number.
> 
> Actually the number I'm using is 10^8, which is... er, let me see... 100 
> million?

note to self: never lend money to that guy.


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