With the amount of RAM and the size of the argument, your timings are likely influenced by paging and are not very meaningful.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Schott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Programming forum" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 9:54 AM Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Closest local minimums of data Using my 5 year old 533mhz Mac with 640mb ram (very sloooooow) and J5.04 the differences are much more dramatic, as well as slow. Btw, the space usage differential is greater for the last two tests, also. ts 'D=:10000000$d' NB. reference timing 0.39102 6.71098e7 ts'((1:,2:>/\]);@(<&(<./\);. 1)])D' 83.27 5.08264e8 ts'((1:,}:>}.);@(<&(<./\);. 1)])D' 32.0341 5.08263e8 ts '(}.>}:)D' 0.988776 1.50996e8 ts '(2: >/\ ])D' 29.152 2.18106e8 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
