POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Computers are fast : Re: Computers are fast Server Time
5 Sep 2024 03:19:58 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Computers are fast  
From: SharkD
Date: 14 Nov 2009 19:09:30
Message: <4aff46ba$1@news.povray.org>
On 11/14/2009 3:17 PM, TC wrote:
> The basic code on a 1 MHz PC in 1984 (very optimitic - probably the Atari
> CPU was slower) ran 100x slower than python on a 2400 MHz single core (he
> mentions old harware).

He says ~100000x not 100x. On the Python machine he's executing the 
script 1000x times instead of 1x on the Basic machine.

Mike


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