Thank you. I'll reread the special code optimizations section.
When I insert my favorite side effect hook ([smoutput), emacs tells me
that j did all the computations. It did not stop at finding the first
matching index.
#~. , */~ 100+i.900
227521
({~ (-: |.)@([smoutput)@":"0 i. 1:) \:~ ~. , */~ 100+i.900
...Region has 227520 lines, 227520 words,...
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>Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2014 20:25:01 -0700 (PDT)
>From: "'Pascal Jasmin' via Programming" <[email protected]>
>To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Project Euler Question 4
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> timespacex '(* (-: |.)@":)@:[^:(0=])/ 0,~ /:~ ~. , */~ 100+i.900'
>0.167316 3.56726e7
>
>btw, there is an optimization close to short circuiting built in:
>
> ({~ (-: |.)@":"0 i. 1:) \:~ ~. , */~ 100+i.900
>906609
>
> timespacex '({~ (-: |.)@":"0 i. 1:) \:~ ~. , */~ 100+i.900'
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