Hi Alex, I should have sent this yesterday on April 1 - but it is true!
For some people, a 11,185,272 digit number is very interesting ;-) http://www.mersenne.org/ Maybe they should use picolisp..... Cheers, - Rand On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Alexander Burger <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tomas, > >> Interesting, it does not seem to make much difference with the C >> version when I take the final 'printf' out of the C code. > > That's why I suspect that there might be a way to speed it up. > > On the other hand, bignum packages in C usually work with fixed length > arrays (as opposed to linked lists of cells in picoLisp), which make > things easier, and a lot more efficient. The picoLisp solution stays > with the philosophy "no limits", despite the fact that bignums > above a certain size (a few thousand digits?) make no sense. > > Cheers, > - Alex > -- > UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe > -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
