> I find it quite scary how they can constantly gain 2x speedups. Every time 
> they change something, it goes another 2x or 4x faster. You would think 
> that there would be a physical limit to how fast it can possibly go, but 
> no, it keeps getting faster without end. Hmm...

Yeh, it makes you realise that just because you think you have some "fast" C 
code, there is probably still some big speedups to be made.

Next assignment, do the same activity on the inverse matrix function :-)

> Just for giggles, I could implement this in Haskell and see how many 
> million times slower it is.

I wonder if it would finish in one day? :-)

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