<quote> Do you mean that your program did not finish and ate up all the CPU time? Isn't that normal (unless you have a multi processor system and the OS shares the load)? Anyway, try the same program in C or C++ on the same machine and see how that goes. </quote>
A 1 billion iteration completed using a java program in around 4.5 seconds. I should have mentioned it in the first posting itself. In my experience user space code can bring down the entire OS, (Solaris on sparc to be specific.) below given is the code in python, I dont have the guts to run it one more time. k=0 for x in range(1,100000000): k =k+1; Not sure it this is a problem code. I am no python programmer. Personally, I dont like python's Indentation stuff.May be its purpose was to force developers to put Indentation, so as to write more readable code. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---